16 African Proverbs about Care
All African Proverbs | Proverbs about Care1. Where there is a hippopotamus, be careful when passing with a pirogue.
2. Before killing the chicken carefully observe the character of your guest.
3. If it's not here and now, who cares about what and when?
4. If the moon is with you, you need not care about the stars.
5. A fly that dances carelessly in front of a spider's web, risks the wrath of the spider's teeth.
6. A hunter with one arrow doesn't shoot with a careless aim.
7. A scared dog barks to pretend to its master but a brave dog bits to protect him.
8. A sick way between two people can only be cared for if the two of them die.
9. Be careful of the words you say each day, make sure each is nice and sweet, because may be in the days ahead, there will be some you'll have to eat.
10. Be careful of what you own because what you own might eventually own you.
11. Be careful when you are sharing a calabash of porridge with a toothless man.
12. If you were in a place you take care of it has if it where yours.
13. It requires a lot of carefulness to kill a fly that touches on the scrotum.
14. Monkeys don't advise there young ones to be careful on trees they just remind them of the distance to the ground.
15. The raised hand cares not for its own recognition, but for that of the body below.
16. You cannot reject the head of a cow simply because the eye scares you.
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