When elephants fight, it’s the grass that suffers.
—African Proverb
Topics: Fighting, War
One knife will not cut another knife; one cheat will not cheat another cheat.
—African Proverb
Topics: Cheating
With tender words you have less luck with a woman than with jewels.
—African Proverb
Better to lose a little money than a little friendship.
—African Proverb
Topics: Friendship
Money is like a guest: it comes today, leaves tomorrow.
—African Proverb
Topics: Tomorrow
To one who knows no better, a small garden is a forest.
—African Proverb
Topics: Garden
The rain wets the leopard’s spots but does not wash them off.
—African Proverb
Topics: Rain
For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today
—African Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Tomorrow, Future
You must decide where you are going in the evening, if you intend to leave early in the morning.
—African Proverb
Topics: Morning
Where I make a living, there is my home.
—African Proverb
Topics: Home
You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you.
—African Proverb
Topics: Integrity
One does not give a gift without a motive.
—African Proverb
Topics: Gifts
Kings have no friends.
—African Proverb
Topics: Kings
He, who begins a conversation, does not foresee the end.
—African Proverb
Topics: Foresight
Two lightning flashes cannot come from one cloud.
—African Proverb
The multitude is stronger than the king.
—African Proverb
Topics: Kings
If you chase two hares one will escape.
—African Proverb
The house of the heart is never full.
—African Proverb
Topics: Heart
The wise traveler leaves his heart at home.
—African Proverb
Topics: Home
The teeth are smiling, but is the heart?
—African Proverb
Topics: Heart
A man who cries all the time is not heard.
—African Proverb
Topics: Bad Times
He who has a boss is not the master of his burden.
—African Proverb
Silence is the door of consent.
—African Proverb
Topics: Silence
The one who asks questions doesn’t lose his way
—African Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Questions
The seed waits for its garden or ground where it will be sown.
—African Proverb
Topics: Garden
Wood may remain ten years in the water, but it will never become a crocodile.
—African Proverb
Topics: Acceptance
Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
—African Proverb
Topics: Foolishness, Proverbs, Fools, Water
He who does not know one thing knows another
—African Proverb
Topics: Knowledge
Hurrying has no blessing.
—African Proverb
Topics: Blessings
There is no mother like your own mother.
—African Proverb
Topics: Memory, Mother, Fight, Fighting