2049 African Proverbs / Page 48
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If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off your lips.942.
If your vision is for a year plant wheat, if you vision is for a decade plant trees, and if your vision is for a lifetime plant people.943.
In a community it's better every person to have a little of something than one person to have everything.944.
In a family if you have somebody who is troublesome it's the family members who are worried than the troublesome member.945.
In a strange land one should always move near one's kinsmen.946.
In all the world, things are two and two.947.
In good times friends know you and in bad times you know them.948.
In hell there are no fans.949.
In the absence of water lizards can claim to be crocodiles.950.
In the birds' court, a cockroach never wins his case.951.
In the great river there are large and small fish.952.
Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water.953.
Innocence can be an offence.954.
Instead of being near a pagan you rather be near an animal.955.
It costs you your good spirit to steal than buying or seeking.956.
It doesn't matter how slowly you walk, just as long as you don't stop.957.
It is a foolish fly that is buried with a corpse.958.
It is a man with a harp who should decide how he is going to sleep.959.
It is a person suffering from cold who will first think of closing the door.960.
It is a stupid dog that barks at an elephant.