Quotes from African Proverb

Smooth seas do not make skilful sailors

However long the night, the dawn will break.

The one who asks questions doesn't lose his way

The end of an ox is beef, and the end of a lie is grief

For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today

The best way to eat the elephant standing in your path is to cut it up into little pieces.

To try and to fail, is not laziness

A word uttered cannot be taken back

A cutting word is worse than a bowstring; a cut may heal, but the cut of the tongue does not

Sorrow is like a precious treasure, shown only to friends

There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority and control your mind and your mouth

Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight

It is not with saying, Honey, Honey, that sweetness will come into the mouth.

Though the lion and the antelope happen to live in the same forest, the antelope still has time to grow up. - Cape Coast, Ghana.

By the deeds know a man.

When the music changes, so does the dance

He who is unable to dance says that the yard is stony

If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.

Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet

Filthy water cannot be washed.

The stone in the water knows nothing of the hill which lies parched in the sun.

There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority and control ð your mind and your mouth.

He who asks questions, cannot avoid the answers

Where water is boss, the land must obey