If your buttocks burn, you know you have done wrong.
—African Proverb
Topics: Punishment
He who takes a light to find a snake should start at his own feet.
—African Proverb
A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers.
—African Proverb
Topics: Marriage
Advice is a stranger; if he’s welcome he stays for the night; if not, he leaves the same day.
—African Proverb
Topics: Advice
An intelligent enemy is better than a stupid friend.
—African Proverb
Topics: Enemies
Great men have big hearts.
—African Proverb
Topics: Heart
There is no mother like your own mother.
—African Proverb
Topics: Mother, Fight, Fighting, Memory
Great events may stem from words of no importance.
—African Proverb
Topics: Events
Where water is the boss, there must the land obey.
—African Proverb
Anticipate the good so that you may enjoy it.
—African Proverb
Topics: Enjoyment
No matter how long the night is, the morning is sure to come.
—African Proverb
Topics: Morning
Being well dressed does not prevent one from being poor.
—African Proverb
If sweetness be excessive, it is no longer sweetness.
—African Proverb
The word of a powerful man is the truth.
—African Proverb
Topics: The Truth
The bitter heart eats its owner.
—African Proverb
Topics: Heart
When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.
—African Proverb
Topics: Teamwork, Unity, Teams
A bull does not enjoy fame in two herds.
—African Proverb
Topics: Aspirations, Goals
A partner in the business will not put an obstacle to it.
—African Proverb
Don’t stand for something? You’ll fall for anything.
—African Proverb
Topics: Character
He who spends a night with a chicken will cackle in the morning.
—African Proverb
For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today
—African Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Future, Tomorrow
When there is no moon, you go by the stars.
—African Proverb
Whenever I work hard for other people, I always sleep on an empty stomach.
—African Proverb
Topics: Sleeping
People think that the poor are not as wise as the rich, for if a man be wise, why is he poor?
—African Proverb
If you chase two hares one will escape.
—African Proverb
With tender words you have less luck with a woman than with jewels.
—African Proverb
The more intimate the friendship the deadlier the enmity.
—African Proverb
Topics: Friendship
Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
—African Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Water, Fools, Foolishness
A wealthy man will always have followers.
—African Proverb
Topics: Follow
Nothing is so difficult that diligence cannot master it.
—African Proverb
Topics: Proverbs
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