2049 African Proverbs / Page 88
1741.
Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.1742.
Villages that posses culture will never perish even though they may be small.1743.
Vision quest should be continuous.1744.
War is a bad chisel with which to curve out tomorrow.1745.
Wars are created by people to old to fight for those to young to die.1746.
Water from another man's calabash tests differently.1747.
Water is colourless and tasteless but you can live on it longer than eating food.1748.
Water that has been begged for does not quench the thirst.1749.
We have never seen the earth show her teeth.1750.
We rest our legs, but never our mouths.1751.
We shall not give the hyena twice.1752.
We start as fools and become wise through experience.1753.
Wearing a mended dress is better than being naked.1754.
Well-timed silence is the most commanding __expression.1755.
What comes from the lips reaches the ears, what comes from the heart reaches the heart.1756.
What grows quickly, dies quickly.1757.
What is in a heart of a sober man is on the tongue of a drunkard.1758.
What is in the stomach carries what is in the head.1759.
What is in the yams that a knife doesn't know.1760.
What is past is gone, what is hoped for is absent, for you is the hour in which you are.