33 African Proverbs about Ours

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1. Do not try to fight a lion if you are not one yourself.
2. Only what you have eaten is yours; other things may not be.
3. Thorns themselves will not harm you -- you hurt yourself on the thorns.
4. Heal yourself first before you heal others.
5. Respect yourself, and you will get it back.
6. Ours is ours, but mine is mine.
7. A man will show his true colours in adversity.
8. A nice place is never yours.
9. A stick at the neighbours cannot drive out a leopard at your home.
10. Before buying a house, see who your neighbours will be.
11. Don't respond to a mosquito bit with a stone because you will miss it and hunt yourself.
12. Don't water your friend's garden when yours is full of weeds.
13. Even if you close your eyes while looking in the mirror the image remains yours.
14. Even the colours of a chameleon are for survival not beauty.
15. Happiness is like a perfume, you cannot pour it all on others without allowing a few drops to fall on yourself.
16. He who is wise endeavours to learn how to understand the truth not less than that.
17. If you knock your head against a wall, then a coconut tree and pillar and your head still remains undamaged my child, go and hide that head of yours; it is a good head.
18. If you are not an animal you will never find yourself in a trap.
19. If you run too fast you bypass a safe place you would have hidden yourself.
20. If you were in a place you take care of it has if it where yours.
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