Top Inspirational African Proverbs Quotes (2020)

 

African Proverbs Quotes

African proverbs quote: Want to know those beautiful African proverbs on love, marriage, and African proverbs about family, you would find all in these amazing collections of African proverbs quotes.

    African Proverbs On Love     

1. When one is in love, a cliff becomes a meadow. Ethiopia

 

2. You know who you love but you can’t know who loves you. Nigeria

 

3. Where there is love, there is no darkness. Burundi

 

4. If you marry a monkey for its wealth, the money goes and the monkey remains. Egypt

 

5. He who loves, love you with your dirt. Uganda

 

6. If love is a sickness, patience is the remedy. Cameroon

 

7. Love doesn’t rely on physical features. Lesotho

 

8. To love someone who does not love you is like shaking a tree to make the dew drops fall. Congo

 

9. If a woman doesn’t love you, she calls you “brother.” Côte d’Ivoire

 

10. Don’t try to make someone hate the person he loves. For he will go on loving but he will hate you. Senegal

 

11. One who loves the vase, loves also what is inside. Tanzania/Kenya

 

12. Love doesn’t listen to rumors. Ghana

 

13. Do not treat your loved one like a swinging door: you are fond of it but you push it back and forth. Madagascar

 

14. Don’t be so in love that you can’t tell when it’s raining. Madagascar

 

15. Let your love be like the misty rain, coming softly but flooding the river. Liberia

 

16. Don’t try to make someone hate the person he loves. For he will go on loving but he will hate you. Senegal

 

17. To love someone who does not love you is like shaking a tree to make the dew drops fall. Congo

 

18. One who marries for love alone will have bad days but good nights. Egypt

 

19. Love doesn’t listen to rumors. Ghana

 

20. Love is a painkiller. African origin unknown 

 

Funny African Proverbs on Love

21. Kindness to all friendship to few. African proverb

 

22. It is the one who lives in the house who knows where the roof is. African proverb

 

23. Being happy is better than being King. African proverb

 

24. As I walked out the door towards my freedom, I knew that if I did not leave all the anger, hatred and bitterness behind that I will still be in prison—Nelson Mandela

 

25. When there is no enemy within the enemies outside will not hurt you. African proverb

 

26. A happy man marries the woman he loves. A happier man loves the woman he marries. African proverb

 

27. A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. African proverb

 

28. One who loves you loves you with your dirt. African proverb

 

29. A letter from the heart can be read on the face. African proverb

 

30. If you want to know the end, look at the beginning. African proverb

 

31. Give a man a mask and he will show his real self. African proverb

 

32. He who loves a vase loves also what is inside. African proverb

 

33. Marry the girl of a good family, though she be seated on a mat, very poor. African proverb

 

African Proverb on Marriage

34. A good “live with” is better than a bad marriage. African proverb

 

35. The same mouth that courts you don’t marry you. African proverb

 

36. The way you got married is not the way you will get divorced. African proverb

 

37. Take a wife while you are young that she may make a son for you while you are youthful – Egyptian scribe Ani from Thebes

 

38. A woman married without consultation runs away without consultation. African proverb

 

39. It is Mr.Old-Man-Monkey who marries Mrs.Old-Woman-Monkey. African proverb

 

40. One who is looking for a wife does not speak with contempt about women. African proverbs

 

41. If you laugh at your mother-in-law, you’ll get dirt in your eye. African proverb

 

42. Sadness is a valuable treasure, only discovered in people you love. African proverb

 

43. A wise woman has much to say and yet remains silent. African proverb

 

44. If there were no cold Friday evenings and boring Saturdays, no one would get married anymore. African proverbs

 

45. Instruct a man, you instruct an individual. Instruct a woman, you instruct a nation. African proverbs

 

46. One who pervades the great universe is seen by none unless a man knows the unfolding of love. African proverbs

 

47. A man’s first wife never complains of neglect from the penis, the first morsel never complains of insufficient sauce. African proverbs

 

48. “Now the marriage begins,” says the woman who has been beaten with thorns. African proverbs

 

49. It is only when you look at a bride’s eye is when you know she is crying. African proverb

 

50. If you are wise and seek to make your house stable, love your wife fully and righteously…
    Kindness and consideration will influence her better than force – Husania

 

51. Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity—Kahlil Gibran

 

52. We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond- Gwendolyn Brooks

 

53. The man who says he will not marry a woman with other admirers will not marry a woman. African proverbs

 

54. Love, like rain, does not choose the grass on which it falls. African proverbs

 

55. I never loved you any more than I do, right this second. And I’ll never love you any less than I do, right this second—Kami Garcia

 

 

56. It’s the way that you know what I thought I knew. It’s the beat that my heart skips when I’m with you. Beyonce Knowles

 

57. Your cute smile and your happy laughter attracted me to you, but your caring loving heart is the reason why I want to spend the rest of my life with you—Lana Dudley

 

58. Romantic love is over-rated but that’s what we want in life, someone who loves us in a romantic way.  Ann Marrie Anguiliar

 

59. I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning. –Haruki Murakami

 

Inspirational African proverbs

60. If you run after two hares you will catch neither. African Proverb

 

 

61. Even the best cooking pot will not produce food. African Proverb

 

62. It is not what you are called, but what you answer to. African Proverb

 

63. Do not follow a person who is running away. African Proverb

 

64. He who thinks he is leading and has no one following him is only taking a walk. African Proverb

 

65. If you offend, ask for a pardon; if offended forgive. African Proverb

 

66. Patience is the mother of a beautiful child—African proverb

 

67. A good deed is something someone returns—African proverb

 

68. Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. African Proverb

 

69. A single stick may smoke, but it will not burn. African Proverb

 

70. Seeing is different than being told. African Proverb

 

71. You can tell a ripe corn by its look. African Proverb

 

72. If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. African Proverb

 

73. If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
    African Proverb

 

74. Every misfortune is a blessing. African Proverb

 

75. Lack of knowledge is darker than night. African Proverb

 

76. Repetition is the mother of knowledge. African Proverb

 

77. Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight. African Proverb

 

78. Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them. African Proverb

 

79. Knowledge is like a garden: If it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested. African Proverb

 

   African Proverbs on Motivation

80. The best way to eat an elephant in your path is cut him up into little pieces. African proverb

 

81. By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed. African proverb

 

82. Even though the old man is strong and healthy, he will not live forever. African proverb

 

83. The lizard that jumped from the Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no one else did. Nigeria proverb

 

84. Rain beats the leopard skin but it does not wash out the spots. African proverb

 

85. Only when you have crossed the river can you say the crocodile has a lump on his snout. African proverb

 

86. The sun will shine on those who stand before it, shine on those who kneel under them. African proverb

 

87. When a man is coming towards you, you need not say come here African proverb

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88. He who is destined for power need not fight for it. African proverb

 

89. You are beautiful but learn to work, for you cannot eat your beauty. African proverb

 

90. When you follow in the path of your father, you learn to walk like him. African proverb

 

91. Speak softly and carry a big stick, you will go far. African proverb

 

92. If there is a character, ugliness becomes beauty, if there is none, beauty becomes ugliness. African proverb

 

93. A close friend can become the worst enemy. African proverb

 

94. A close friend can become a close enemy. African proverb

 

95. Milk and honey have different color but they share the same house peacefully. African proverb

 

96. He that digs a grave for his enemy may be digging it for himself. African proverb

 

97. A bird will always be another bird’s feathers to feather its own nest. African proverb

 

98. When there is peace in the country, the chief does not carry a shield. African proverb

 

 

African Proverb About Family

99. The destruction of a nation starts from the home of its people. African proverb

 

100. Looking at a king’s mouth, one would never think he sucked his mother’s Breast. African proverb

 

101. When a woman is hungry, she says, “Roast something for the children that they might eat”. African proverb

 

102. Don’t hate because there is no remedy to cure hatred. African proverb

 

103. Dine with a stranger but save your love for your family. African proverb

 

104. A small house will hold a hundred friends. African proverb

 

105. Those who palm-kernels were cracked for them by a benevolent spirit should not forget to be humble. African proverb

  

106. The old woman looks after the child to grow its teeth and the young one, in turn, looks after the old woman when she loses her teeth. African proverb

 

107. The one who loves a cripple is the one who makes her beautiful. African proverb

 

108. Hunger is felt by a slave and hunger is felt by a king. African proverb

 

109. When this hand brings and the other hand brings, living together will be interesting. African proverb

 

110. The hand of a child does not reach the ceiling and the hand of the adult does not enter the small hole. African proverb

  

111. He who goes to sleep with an itching anus wakes up with smelly fingers – Nigerian Proverb

 

112. The frown on the face of the goat will not stop it from being taken to the market – Nigerian Proverb

 

113. Fishing without a net is just bathing. Nigerian proverb

 

114. It is the fear of what tomorrow may bring that makes the tortoise carry his house along with him wherever he goes. Nigerian proverb

 

115. When a soldier slaps you on your face, you will know that police are your friend. African proverb

 

116. If you think you are too small to make a difference, you haven’t spent a night with a mosquito. African proverb

  

117. The axe forgets the tree remembers. African proverb

 

118. Only a fool tests the water with both legs. African Proverbs

 

119. A fool has something to say, a wise person has something to say. African proverb

 

120. If you want to improve your memory lend someone money. African proverb

 

121. If you escaped from the lion’s den why go back for your hat? African proverb

 

122. He who shits on the road will meet flies on his return. African proverb

 

123. A camel never sees his own hump. African proverb

 

124. Ashes fly back to the face of him who throws them. African proverb (Nigeria)

 

125. A man will never heed the voice of a woman until it is too late. African proverb.

 

126. One falsehood spoils thousands of truths. Ghana

 

127. Life is full questions. Idiots are full of answers. African proverb.

 

128. The lion doesn’t turn around when the small dog’s barks. African proverb.

 

129. Until the lion learns how to write, every story will glorify the hunter. African proverb.

 

130. If the rich could hire someone else to die for them, the poor would make a wonderful living. African proverb