Quotes from African Proverb

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

Filthy water cannot be washed.

He who forgives ends the quarrel.

Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick.

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.

Corn can't expect justice from a court composed of chickens.

Peace is the father of friendship.

The teeth are smiling, but is the heart?

Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.

The African race is a rubber ball. The harder you dash it to the ground, the higher it will rise.

A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers.

If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.

Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.

It's a bad child who does not take advice.

Sorrow is like a precious treasure, shown only to friends.

If you wish to move mountains tomorrow, you must start by lifting stones today.

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

If men swear that they want to harm you when you are asleep, you can go to sleep. If women say so, stay awake.