African proverbs

If a man returns from a long journey and no one says welcome back to him he feels like one who has not arrived.

A feather is just a delicate thing when removed from a bird because it carries the bird everywhere in the world.

The radiant and well-understood speech of one person is better than the speech of a thousand people that is not.

It's not the monkey on top that make a tree fall but it's the work and effort of numerous small insects and ants.

Monkeys don't advise there young ones to be careful on trees they just remind them of the distance to the ground.

Give a man a fish and he won't starve for a day. Teach a man how to fish and he won't starve for his entire life.

He is a wise man who has no worries about the things he doesn't have but he rejoices for those things that he has.

Indecision is like a stepchild if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water.

Despite the beauty of the moon, sun and the stars, the sky also has a threatening thunder and striking lightening.

Until a crab finds itself in a very hot pot of soup, it will never understand that water can be both cold and hot.

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