Quotes from African Proverb

Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water.

If sweetness be excessive, it is no longer sweetness.

Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick.

It is not work that kills, but worry

By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

The African race is a rubber ball. The harder you dash it to the ground, the higher it will rise.

Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.

Corn can't expect justice from a court composed of chickens.

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.

A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers.

The teeth are smiling, but is the heart?

A camel never sees its own hump.

A fool and water will go the way they are diverted.

Do not try to fight a lion if you are not one yourself.

Everybody has been young before, but not everybody has been old before.

God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.

Living by yourself is better than living with a bad woman.

Not to know is bad not to wish to know is worse.

The success of a man is through the soles of his feet, that of a woman is from her legs.

The wise create proverbs for fools to learn, not to repeat.

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.

Indecision is like a stepchild: if he doesn't wash his hands, he is called dirty; if he does, he is wasting the water.

By his deeds we know a man.