2049 African Proverbs / Page 49
961.
It is a surprise that the cock should hold a grudge against the pot, instead of the knife that killed it.962.
It is better to be kind to our neighbors than to cross the world to offer incense to our ancestors.963.
It is better to be loved than feared.964.
It is better to blush than to keep the concern in your heart.965.
It is better to host a good stranger than a bad brother.966.
It is better to walk fast than to grow angry at the forest.967.
It is childish to remain in a hole when you can take yourself out.968.
It is difficult for two long-nosed lovers to kiss.969.
It is easier to carry an empty cup than one that is filled to the brim.970.
It is easier to catch a bird at night than day.971.
It is easy to become a monk in one's old age.972.
It is from listening to old men that you learn wisdom.973.
It is hard even for the most selfish man to eat fish in the darkness.974.
It is impossible to tie a knot without the thumb.975.
It is in the eyes of a lazy man that maize will ripen.976.
It is in the house of a coward that people gather and point to the tomb of yesterday's warrior.977.
It is Mr. Old-Man-Monkey who marries Mrs. Old-Woman-Monkey.978.
It is no disgrace at all to work for money.979.
It is not by watching a newly wed wife that she is going to become pregnant.980.
It is not right to ask a man with elephantiasis of the scrotum to take on small pox as well, when thousands of other people have not had even their share of small diseases.