Famous Proverbs
2188 Proverbs about Africa / Page 89
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An immoral father-in-law cannot advise his children well.882.
An insolent tongue is a bad weapon.883.
An invasion of an army can be resisted but an invasion of ideas can't be resisted.884.
An old man may miss his target with a stone but never with his word.885.
An old man's mouth produces a bad smell but the words that come out of it are sweet.886.
An only palm-fruit doesn't get lost in the fire.887.
An open mind only hurts those who fear their own mistakes.888.
Any dead fish can flow down the river but it takes a live one to swim back up stream.889.
Any weapon is dangerous even to a person handling it.890.
Anyone can be polite to a king, but it takes a gentleman to be polite to a beggar.