2049 African Proverbs / Page 30
581.
Foolhardiness made the rat try to jump over the fireplace.582.
For one to succeed in life, one has to work hard.583.
For the fisherman, the fun is over when the fish are in the net.584.
For the sake of the rose the thorn is watered too.585.
For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.586.
Fun is like fine beer it is rarely enjoyable alone.587.
Generally with life you will be betrayed by close relatives.588.
Generosity has its disadvantages.589.
Generosity is white and pure like milk.590.
Get hold of the little you have as you struggle for more quantity or quality.591.
Get what to lend out and at the same time how to demand it back, for payment might be a tussle.592.
Getting only a beautiful woman is like planting a vine on the roadside everyone feeds on it.593.
Give a man a fish and he won't starve for a day. Teach a man how to fish and he won't starve for his entire life.594.
Give a stammerer enough time and he will pronounce his father's name.595.
Give me a fish and I will eat today, teach me to fish and I will eat for a lifetime.596.
Goats cannot live in a herd of leopards.597.
God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.598.
Going slowly doesn't stop one arriving.599.
Good millet is known at the harvest.600.
Good music goes with good food.