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African Proverbs: Famous African Proverbs & Sayings
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If you are filled with pride, then you will have
no room for wisdom.
Source: Tanzanian
If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.
Source: African
If you don't stand for something, you will fall for something.
Source: African
If you don't work you shan't eat.
Source: African
If you fear something you give it power over you.
Source: African
If you offend, ask for a pardon; if offended forgive.
Source: African
If you overtake a leader, you break your neck.
Source: Ugandan
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will
not be made straight when you are dry.
Source: African
If you run after two hares you will catch neither.
Source: African
If your child is dancing clumsily, tell him: 'you are dancing
clumsily'; do not tell him: 'darling, do as you please.'
Source: Twi
If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off your lips.
Source: African
If you're going home, you don't get wet.
Source: African
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
Source: African
In the moment of crisis, the wise build bridges and foolish
build dams.
Source: Nigerian
It is better to be loved than feared.
Source: from Senegal & Sierra Leone
It is difficult for two long-nosed lovers to kiss.
Source: African
It is not hard to nurse a pregnancy, but it is hard to bring
up a child.
Source: Swahili
It is not what you are called, but what you answer to.
Source: African
It is not with saying, "Honey," "Honey,"
that sweetness will come into the mouth.
Source: African
It is not work that kills, but worry.
Source: African
It is the duty of children to wait on elders, and not the elders
on children.
Source: Kenyan
It is the habit that a child forms at home, that follows them
to their marriage.
Source: Nigerian
It takes a village to raise a child.
Source: African
It's a bad child who does not take advice.
Source: African
It's better to fall from a tree and a break your back than to
fall in love and break your heart.
Source: African
It's much easier to fall in love than to stay in love.
Source: African
Jealousy eats the two chiefs.
Source: Ugandan
Kings have no friends.
Source: Senegalese
Kingship is like buffalo hunting; everyone joins in the kill.
Source: Ugandan
Knowledge is like a garden: If it is not cultivated, it cannot
be harvested.
Source: African
Knowledge without wisdom is like water in the sand.
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