Great Throughts Treasury

"It is crooked wood that shows the best sculptor. ? African proverb"

"It is no shame at all to work for money. ? Africa Proverb"

"It is not the cook?s fault when the cassava turns out to be hard and tasteless. ? Ewe Proverb"

"It is not what you are called, but what you answer to."

"It is not work that kills, but worry."

"It is only a stupid cow that rejoices at the prospect of being taken to a beautiful abattoir. ? African Proverb"

"It is not with saying, "Honey," "Honey," that sweetness will come into the mouth."

"It?s much easier to fall in love than to stay in love. ? African proverb"

"It takes a village to raise a child. ? African proverb"

"It is the duty of children to wait on elders, and not the elders on children."

"It is the calm and silent water that drowns a man."

"It?s those ugly caterpillars that turn into beautiful butterflies after seasons. ? African Proverb"

"It's a bad child who does not take advice."

"Knowledge is better than riches Cameroon Proverb"

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

"Knowledge is better than riches. ? Cameroon"

"Knowledge is like a garden; if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested."

"Lack of money is lack of friends; if you have money at your disposal, every dog and goat will claim to be related to you. ? Yoruba"

"Knowledge without wisdom is like water in the sand. ? Guinean proverb"

"Learning expands great souls. ? Namibian proverb"

"Let rats shoot arrows at each other. Sudan Proverb"

"Love doesn?t rely on physical features. - Lesotho Proverb"

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

"Looking at a king's mouth one would never think he sucked his mother's breast."

"Love doesn?t listen to rumors. - Ghana Proverb"

"Love for something makes a man blind and deaf. Sudan Proverb"

"Love has to be shown by deeds not words. ? Swahili proverb"

"Love is a painkiller."

"Love is a despot who spares no one. - Namibia Proverb"

"Love, like rain, does not choose the grass on which it falls. - South Africa Proverb"

"Love never gets lost it?s only kept. ? African proverb"

"Many hands make light work. ? Haya (Tanzania) proverb"

"Marriage is like a groundnut; you have to crack it to see what is inside. ? Ghanaian proverb"

"Milk and honey have different colors, but they share the same house peacefully. ? African proverb"

"Man is like a pepper, till you have chewed it you do not know how hot it is. ? Haussa Proverb"

"Man counts what he has refused, not what he has given."

"Money can?t talk, yet it can make lies look true. ? South Africa"

"Money is not the medicine against death. ? Ghana"

"Money is sharper than the sword. Ashanti Tribe Proverb"

"Much wealth brings many enemies. ? Swahili"

"Mother's baby, Father's maybe."

"Nature gave us two cheeks instead of one to make it easier to eat hot food. ? Ghanaian Proverb"

"No one delights more in revenge than a woman."

"Never marry a woman who has bigger feet than you. ? Mozambique proverb"

"No partridge scratches the ground in search of food for another. ? Xhosa Proverb"

"No matter how beautiful and well-crafted a coffin might look, it will not make anyone wish for death. ? African proverb"

"No one tests the depth of a river with both feet."

"No one gets a mouthful of food by picking between another person?s teeth. ? Igbo Proverb"

"Not to know is bad. Not to wish to know is worse."

"Nobody is born wise. ? African proverb"