When an old man dies, a library burns down.
—African Proverb
Topics: Libraries
The path is made by walking.
—African Proverb
The death that will kill a man begins as an appetite.
—African Proverb
Topics: Appetite
Kings have no friends.
—African Proverb
Topics: Kings
The blind say that eyes have no sense of smell.
—African Proverb
Topics: Eyes
Marriage is a snake to slip into your handbag.
—African Proverb
Topics: Marriage
One knife will not cut another knife; one cheat will not cheat another cheat.
—African Proverb
Topics: Cheating
One does not give a gift without a motive.
—African Proverb
Topics: Gifts
One falsehood spoils a thousand truths.
—African Proverb
Topics: Lies
The wise traveler leaves his heart at home.
—African Proverb
Topics: Home
Work only tires a woman, but it ruins a man.
—African Proverb
Topics: Work
Ashes fly back in the face of him that throws them.
—African Proverb
The house of the heart is never full.
—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
You travel on until you return home; you live on until you return to earth.
—African Proverb
Topics: Home
Without human companions, paradise itself would be an undesirable place.
—African Proverb
Topics: Paradise
The end of an ox is beef, and the end of a lie is grief.
—African Proverb
Topics: Lies, Grief, Proverbs
Life is like a ballet performance—danced only once.
—African Proverb
Topics: Performance, Dance
When the heart acts the body is its slave.
—African Proverb
Topics: The Body
You cannot shave a man’s head in his absence.
—African Proverb
Topics: Absence
The body of joy is not so big.
—African Proverb
Topics: The Body
A sensible enemy is better than a narrow-minded friend.
—African Proverb
Topics: Open-mindedness
When one is in trouble, one remembers God.
—African Proverb
Topics: Memory
You inherit from the dead, not from the sick.
—African Proverb
Topics: Inheritance
If you chase two hares one will escape.
—African Proverb
A letter from the heart can be read on the face.
—African Proverb
Topics: Letters, Heart
When the cock is drunk, he forgets about the hawk.
—African Proverb
Topics: Alcohol
An axe is sharp on soft wood.
—African Proverb
Whenever I work hard for other people, I always sleep on an empty stomach.
—African Proverb
Topics: Sleeping
When deeds speak, words are nothing.
—African Proverb
Topics: Words, Action
When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.
—African Proverb
Topics: Unity, Teamwork, Teams
Greatness is not achieved with violence.
—African Proverb
Topics: Violence
He who does not know one thing knows another
—African Proverb
Topics: Knowledge
A close friend can become a close enemy.
—African Proverb
Topics: Enemies
Silence is talk too.
—African Proverb
What is bad luck for one man is good luck for another.
—African Proverb
Topics: Luck
Fire has no brother.
—African Proverb
Topics: Brothers
The radiant and well-understood speech of one person is better than the speech of a thousand people that is not.
—African Proverb
Topics: Speech
For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today
—African Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Tomorrow, Future