53 AFRICAN PROVERBS

1. There's a reason the palm fronds bend downwards, the Earth is speaking to it.
2. Mistake the crabs eye for a stick only if you're a .
3. A crab does not beget a canary.
4. The monkey has a God: it's eyes.
5. To understand death, observe sleep
6. The dead only breaks the necks of pallbearers if it has any.
7. The one who asks for the way never gets lost.
8. An egg broken from within brings life, from without, death.
9. The cow doesn't view as the ant does.
   . The elephant knows that the disadvantage of carrying it's weight is its advantage in war.
   . ladies don't laugh when one talks about broken teeth
   . The sees the future and is merry, the man does and is sorrowful.
   . Of all the professions it's only the burglar who wishes you prosperity.
   . The chicken cannot say the donkey's crime has no bearing on it.
   . A breaks the shell of the snail but not the tortoise's.
   . Trying to remove all plaque from the teeth at once only invites blood.
   . To properly a snake, better cut off the head.
10. The hen knows that it's day but it is the rooster who crows to announce it.
11. A who refuses the sleep doesn't sleep either.
12. Don't take the slowness of a snail to mean it will never get to it's destination.
13. Do not take the bow of the chicken as it enters it's coop to mean its too tall for the door
14. If someone asks you to show him how to die just don't do it.
15. With cotton between your legs, you don't jump across fire.
16. Darkness doesn't eat up faeces.
17. The rod used on one can be used on another
18. You don't escape with two weeks of your jail sentence left to do.
19. You don't stand in thorns to pull out thorns.
20. If you try looking into a bottle with both eyes, it's your nose that ends up looking into it.
21. If a Pauper says he'll give you a piece of cloth, listen to his name.
22. The blind will not say he'll throw a stone at you unless he's standing on one.
23. A bird which refuses to fly dies of hunger.
24. Don't cut your walking stick beyond your height.
25. Don't make your falling place your sleeping place.
26. Investigating what lies beneath the closed eyelid of a corpse only leads to seeing ghosts.
27. The firewood of this world is for only those who can take heart.
28. The housefly manages to eat the ear of the bit by bit
29. The dance of a millipede does not impress he who has seen the dance of a snake.
30. Words are like eggs, once broken they can never be amended.
31. Patience can cook a rock
32. The head doesn't sit for the knee to wear the hat.
33. If you're peeling groundnuts for the blind, you must keep whistling so he knows you're not eating them.
34. If you pull a rope and it gets taut then there's something holding it.
35. The recoil if a gun blasts into the chest of a man
36. Spend time with the wise and you'll become wise.
37. There is no king who is not gossiped about.
38. Do not think there are no crocodiles just because the water is calm.
39. When the music changes so does the dance.
40. The sun does not forget a village only because it's .
41. Only a fool tests the depth of a river with both feet.
42. The man who ignores noble character and insists on marrying a virgin does not realize that virginity lasts only a night.
43. He that sells eggs in the market should not encourage fights.
44. The frown on the face of the good will not stop it from being taken to the market.
45. Unlike the brain the stomach lets you when it's empty.