2049 African Proverbs / Page 23
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Clothes should not be made for an unborn child.442.
Clouds do not always mean rain, but smoke is a sure sign of fire.443.
Confiding a secret to an unworthy person is like carrying grain in a bag with a hole.444.
Cream always rises to the top.445.
Cutting the ears of a mule will not make him a horse.446.
Dancing depends on the parents.447.
Daybreak, mouth open.448.
Death does not sound a trumpet.449.
Death is a thief.450.
Death is always news.451.
Death is like a dress that, at some point or another, everyone has to wear.452.
Death is like a robe everyone has to wear.453.
Debt is slavery.454.
Declare kinship with the hyena, and all hyenas are your friend.455.
Defeat is not failure but trail is total failure.456.
Defiance is the biggest weapon of the weak.457.
Despise not a snail for its slow and struggling movement; it has a destination and with time it shall arrive.458.
Despite the beauty of the moon, sun and the stars, the sky also has a threatening thunder and striking lightening.459.
Differences between husband and wife should not be aired in the marketplace.460.
Do not call the forest that shelters you a jungle.