2049 African Proverbs / Page 19
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An endless war shames even a hero.362.
An immoral father-in-law cannot advise his children well.363.
An insolent tongue is a bad weapon.364.
An intelligent enemy is better than a stupid friend.365.
An invasion of an army can be resisted but an invasion of ideas can't be resisted.366.
An old man may miss his target with a stone but never with his word.367.
An old man's mouth produces a bad smell but the words that come out of it are sweet.368.
An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.369.
An only palm-fruit doesn't get lost in the fire.370.
An open mind only hurts those who fear their own mistakes.371.
Anger against a brother is felt in the flesh, not in the bone.372.
Anxiety will not let you die of hunger.373.
Any dead fish can flow down the river but it takes a live one to swim back up stream.374.
Any weapon is dangerous even to a person handling it.375.
Anyone can be polite to a king, but it takes a gentleman to be polite to a beggar.376.
Anyone suffering from a running stomach is never afraid of the dark.377.
Anyone who has sold an old lady, knows the price of an old man.378.
Anything with a beginning also has an end.379.
As long as a cock lives, it is said to have belonged to the child of the house; but when it is slaughtered for super, it is then that the real owner emerges.380.
As long as I make you to be inferior, I render myself inferior.