2049 African Proverbs / Page 101
- 1001. It is unwise for one to think that a hen will ever be accorded respect in the land of the hawks.
 - 1002. It is when one holds the sacrificial lamb that he begins to seek the gods.
- 1003. It may take a lot of time to fabricate a lie but the truth only takes seconds to elevate.
- 1004. It rained on the mountaintop, but it was the valley below that got flooded.
- 1005. It requires a lot of carefulness to kill a fly that touches on the scrotum.
- 1006. It s the discontented fish that envies the solely bird.
- 1007. It takes a breast for a child to know it's mother and it takes a mother for a child to know its father.
- 1008. It takes a season for a snake to change into its new skin.
- 1009. It takes a village to raise a child.
- 1010. It takes a whole village to raise a child.
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