African proverbs

A kola nut is small, but it is more important that it goes round to each person and not that it fills the stomach.

It's useless to tell a river to stop running; the best thing is to learn how to swim in the direction it's flowing.

African proverbs
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Judge not your beauty by the number of people who look at you, but rather by the number of people who smile at you.

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

When a lion runs and looks back, its not that he is afraid, rather he is trying to see the distance he has covered.

A leopard is such an elusive animal that it can only be caught by the combined force of a man and his father-in-law.

If you have escaped the jaws of the crocodile while bathing in the river, you will surely meet a leopard on the way.

If you dig a hole to bury a person but instead of burying that person you may be the one to be buried in this place.

The leopard that covers its black spots with hamaton dust solution will truly be exposed when the rain season comes.

If you are building something and a nail breaks, should you stop building altogether, or should you change the nail?

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