Famous Proverbs
2188 Proverbs about Africa / Page 57
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Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse.562.
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito.563.
Tell me whom you love, and I'll tell you who you are.564.
Only a fool believes that the clouds obscure the splendour of the moon. It has shined behind them for eternity.565.
Wearing a mended dress is better than being naked.566.
It is better to be kind to our neighbors than to cross the world to offer incense to our ancestors.567.
During the dry season it is better to befriend the owner of the pirogue.568.
Loving someone that does not love you is like loving the rain that falls in the forest.569.
Those who waste time only hurt themselves.570.
The mouth of an elderly man is without teeth, but never without words of wisdom.