Proverbs are popularly defined as “short expressions of popular wisdom”.They expresses a truth, based on common sense or the practical experience of humanity.
Here you can find the collection of African Proverbs.
Don’t look where you fell, but where you slipped.
Don’t set sail using someone else’s star.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
Tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
A single stick may smoke, but it will not burn.
If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
If you are filled with pride, then you will have no room for wisdom.
Nobody is born wise.
By crawling a child learns to stand.Ears that do not listen to advice, accompany the head when it is chopped off.
You always learn a lot more when you lose than when you win.
Ears that do not listen to advice, accompany the head when it is chopped off.
If relatives help each other, what evil can hurt them?
Judge not your beauty by the number of people who look at you, but rather by the number of people who smile at you.
There is always a winner even in a monkey’s beauty contest.
A happy man marries the girl he loves, but a happier man loves the girl he marries.
Love never gets lost it’s only kept.
Patience can cook a stone.
No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.
Not to know is bad. Not to wish to know is worse.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
He who is carried on another’s back does not appreciate how far off the town is.
Everybody has been young before, but not everybody has been old before.
A camel never sees its own hump.
Don’t set sail using someone else’s star.
Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up.
It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning a lion wakes up.
It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.
It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle.
When the sun comes up, you better start running.
