Famous Proverbs
2188 Proverbs about Africa / Page 130
1291.
It is easier to catch a bird at night than day.1292.
It is from listening to old men that you learn wisdom.1293.
It is hard even for the most selfish man to eat fish in the darkness.1294.
It is impossible to tie a knot without the thumb.1295.
It is in the eyes of a lazy man that maize will ripen.1296.
It is in the house of a coward that people gather and point to the tomb of yesterday's warrior.1297.
It is not by watching a newly wed wife that she is going to become pregnant.1298.
It is not right to ask a man with elephantiasis of the scrotum to take on small pox as well, when thousands of other people have not had even their share of small diseases.1299.
It is not the lamb that should go and ask the lion if it has had dinner.1300.
It is not the things in the soup that I am afraid of but perhaps the person I am eating with.