African Proverb Quotes

Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.

For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today

Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight

If everybody in town donates one threat, the poor man has a shirt

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

When a poor man goes to the market, often he comes home with only tears

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

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

It is the duty of children to wait on elders, and not the elders on children

Seeing is different than being told.

There is no medicine to cure hatred

Where water is boss, the land must obbey