African Proverb Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

35 Famous Quotes by African Proverb
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“There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority and control ð your mind and your mouth”
Authority Quotes
“You've got to dance like nobody's watching and love like it's never going to hurt.”
Dancing Quotes
“It is the duty of children to wait on elders, and not the elders on children”
Duty Quotes
“When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.”
Enemies Quotes
“Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight”
Fire Quotes
“By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed”
Foolishness Quotes
“For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today”
Future Quotes
“Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water.”
Indecision Quotes
“Where water is boss, the land must obbey”
Land Quotes
“There is no medicine to cure hatred”
Medicine Quotes
“If everybody in town donates one threat, the poor man has a shirt”
Poor Quotes
“When a poor man goes to the market, often he comes home with only tears”
Poor Quotes
“Seeing is different than being told.”
Popular saying Quotes
“Seeing is different than being told.”
Proverbs Quotes
“He who asks questions, cannot avoid the answers”
Questioning Quotes
“A stranger in town is like a white dog, he gets noticed immedeatly”
Strangers Quotes
“Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight”
Wood Quotes
“If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.”
Illness Quotes
“Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water.”
Indecision Quotes
“Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.”
Water Quotes
“When an old man dies, a library burns down.”
Cliches and one-liners Quotes
“A calm sea does not make a skilled sailor.”
Cliches and one-liners Quotes
“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.”
Cliches and one-liners Quotes
“Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water.”
Decisions Quotes
“Much silence makes a powerful noise. -African proverb.”
Listening Quotes