Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.
—African Proverb
Topics: Historians, History
The path is made by walking.
—African Proverb
To deny God’s existence is like jumping with your eyes closed.
—African Proverb
Topics: Eyes
Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river.
—African Proverb
Topics: Love
Greatness is not achieved with violence.
—African Proverb
Topics: Violence
Kings have no friends.
—African Proverb
Topics: Kings
With tender words you have less luck with a woman than with jewels.
—African Proverb
Silence is the door of consent.
—African Proverb
Topics: Silence
Hurrying has no blessing.
—African Proverb
Topics: Blessings
The blind say that eyes have no sense of smell.
—African Proverb
Topics: Eyes
You cannot dance well on only one leg.
—African Proverb
Topics: Dance
Affairs of the home should not be discussed in the public square.
—African Proverb
Topics: Home
Haste has no blessing.
—African Proverb
Topics: Blessings
Whatever accomplishment you boast of in the world, there is someone better than you.
—African Proverb
Topics: Vanity, Conceit
A little rain each day will fill the rivers to overflowing.
—African Proverb
Topics: Rain
We start as fools and become wise through experience.
—African Proverb
Topics: Experience
When the music changes, so does the dance.
—African Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Dancing, Dance
If the dog is not at home, he barks not.
—African Proverb
Topics: Home
No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.
—African Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Common Sense, Common Sense
The one who asks questions doesn’t lose his way.
—African Proverb
Topics: Questions, Proverbs
Fire has no brother.
—African Proverb
Topics: Brothers
A close friend can become a close enemy.
—African Proverb
Topics: Enemies
The bitter heart eats its owner.
—African Proverb
Topics: Heart
He who is drunk from wine can sober up, he who is drunk from wealth cannot.
—African Proverb
Topics: Drunkenness
If love is torn apart you cannot stitch the pieces together again.
—African Proverb
Topics: Togetherness
Where water is the boss, there must the land obey.
—African Proverb
Let a wrong-doing repeat itself at least three times: the first may be an accident, the second a mistake, but the third is likely to be intentional.
—African Proverb
Topics: Mistakes
Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind is bearing me across the sky.
—African Proverb
Topics: Bad Times
Love is like a baby: it needs to be treated tenderly.
—African Proverb
Topics: Babies
The death of many is not wailed.
—African Proverb
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