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Wisdom in African Proverbs

 

An egg never sits on a hen.  

 

When you don't ask questions while growing up, you become old while still ignorant.

 

However nice the elbow may be, it cannot remove dirt from the eye.

 

The horse can take you to the battlefield but cannot do the fighting for you.

 

When teeth bite the tongue, it is not the case of hatred.

 

When the soup sours, the orphan gets an unusually large amount.

 

Being a burglar with a cough and supplicating to God with a grudge in the heart are not productive.

 

It is foolhardy to climb two trees at once just because one has two feet.

 

A secret belongs to one person.

 

A sore is soothing when it is the owner who scratches it.

 

Where there are many, somebody will be offended.

 

Not with both eyes people look into a bottle.

 

Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.

 

Smooth seas do not make skilful sailors.

 

The earth is a beehive; we all enter by the same door.

 

There are 40 kinds of lunacy, but only one kind of common sense.

 

 

 

 

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Updated on Wednesday, January 03, 2007 14:01:43

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