African Proverb Quotes

38 quotes in 229 categories

• Wisdom does not come overnight
• He who loves money must labor. Mauritania.
• It's a bad child who does not take advice.
• By the deeds know a man
• When the music changes, so does the dance
• Where I make a living, there is my home
• The end of an ox is beef, and the end of a lie is grief
• Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it
• He who asks questions, cannot avoid the answers
• Man counts what he has refused, not what he has given
• Sorrow is like a precious treasure, shown only to friends.
• If men swear that they want to harm you when you are asleep, you can go to sleep. If women say so, stay awake.
• Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.
• If you think youre too small to make a difference, you havent spent the night with a mosquito.
• He who is unable to dance says that the yard is stony
• It is the duty of children to wait on elders, and not the elders on children
• A stranger in town is like a white dog, he gets noticed immedeatly
• By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed
• When the fool is told a Proverb, its meaning has to be explained to him
• Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight

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