Inspiring African proverbs from your ancestors
Listen to your elders
African proverbs
Listen to your elders
African proverbs
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| Eyes have seen it all |
1. You may deny that you were fed, but your body
will tell.
2. Rivers flow into each other but stomach do not.
3.
Food that is rejected at one
place is accepted at another.
4.
One greedy for food makes himself playful.
5. You cannot make new soups
with old bones.
6. Those who are thought to be dying are the old, but those who
actually die are the young.
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| War |
7.
People who are on the verge
of death do not hear the drum beat.
8. Those who do bad things,
also die in a bad ways.
9. A bad life does not
overwhelm the person who leads it.
10. The spider and the fly cannot make a bargain.
11. The body of wise man has
eyes.
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| God is the companion of truth. |
13. The tortoise can look up but cannot go up.
14. Lead a fool into the house but just show the path to the wise.
15. One should understand what happens in one’s
absence by relating to what used to happen in one’s presence.
16. God is the companion of truth.
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| Happy where you are |
17. A wise man plans for tomorrow, a fool plans only
for today.
18. One builds a house for the future, not for the
past.
19. A good hunting dog cannot
hunt down a lion.
20. What you see in yourself is
what you see in the world.
What is a proverb?
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
African Proverbs
