Famous Proverbs
2188 Proverbs about Africa / Page 8
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When you live next to the cemetery, you cannot weep for everyone.72.
Whether the knife falls on the melon or the melon on the knife, the melon suffers.73.
Whoever tells the truth is chased out of nine villages.74.
Whom a serpent has bitten a lizard alarms.75.
Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight.76.
You must judge a man by the work of his hands.77.
A razor may be sharper than an ax, but it cannot cut wood.78.
The country rooster dows not crow in the town.79.
Do not speak of a rhinoceros if there is no tree nearby.80.
This world is a harsh place, this world.