With tender words you have less luck with a woman than with jewels.
—African Proverb
Better to stumble with the toe than with the tongue.
—African Proverb
If you chase two hares one will escape.
—African Proverb
A fault confessed is half redressed.
—African Proverb
Hate has no medicine.
—African Proverb
If a snake bites your neighbor, you too are in danger.
—African Proverb
Do not call to a dog with a whip in your hand.
—African Proverb
When the mouse laughs at the cat there is a hole nearby.
—African Proverb
When poverty crosses the threshold love flies out the window.
—African Proverb
Topics: Poverty
Sorrow doesn’t kill — reckless joy does.
—African Proverb
One falsehood spoils a thousand truths.
—African Proverb
Topics: Lies
You can’t look into a bottle with both eyes at the same time.
—African Proverb
Silence is talk too.
—African Proverb
Hold a true friend with both hands.
—African Proverb
Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
—African Proverb
Topics: Persistence, Proverbs, Adversity, Perseverance
The path is made by walking.
—African Proverb
Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind is bearing me across the sky.
—African Proverb
A woman’s clothes are the price her husband pays for peace.
—African Proverb
Topics: Peace
Ashes fly back in the face of him that throws them.
—African Proverb
A good case is not difficult to state.
—African Proverb
When there is no moon, you go by the stars.
—African Proverb
Choose your neighbor before you buy your house.
—African Proverb
He who is drunk from wine can sober up, he who is drunk from wealth cannot.
—African Proverb
Topics: Drunkenness
An axe is sharp on soft wood.
—African Proverb
If you destroy a bridge be sure you can swim.
—African Proverb
If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you don’t wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes.
—African Proverb
Topics: Past and Present, Tomorrow
Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse.
—African Proverb
Topics: Knowledge
The death of many is not wailed.
—African Proverb
The tongue is harder than the stick.
—African Proverb