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689 Proverbs & Adages Quotes
Water that has been begged for does not quench the thirst.
African Proverbs
Water
Has
Does
Thirst
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Let it be a bite of a cockroach and fly with the wind.
African Proverbs
Bite
Fly
Wind
With
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The humble pay for the mistakes of their leaders.
African Proverbs
Pay
The
Humble
Mistake
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No person is born great great people become great when others are sleeping.
African Proverbs
Person
Born
Great
Sleep
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African Proverbs
Rain
Not
Fall
Roof
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African Proverbs
Jungle
Than
The
Strong
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If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off your lips.
African Proverbs
Mouth Lip
Cut
Turn
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The antics of a market buffoon provide laughter, but nobody prays that his child becomes the market buffoon.
African Proverbs
Market
Pray
Child
That
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If while climbing a tree you insist on going beyond the top, the earth will be waiting for you.
African Proverbs
While
Tree
Climb
Earth
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A weaning baby that does not cry aloud will die on its mothers back.
African Proverbs
Baby
Die
Back
Cry
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He who cannot dance will say, The drum is bad!
African Proverbs
Drum
Bad
Who
Dance
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Crying a lot does not give you peace of mind.
African Proverbs
Lot
Does
Give
Peace
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If a leader loves you, he makes sure you build your house on rock
African Proverbs
Build
House
Rock
You
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African Proverbs
Love
Who
Spare
One
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When you mention the person with one eye, the one with the eye problem reacts.
African Proverbs
When
Eye
React
One
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African Proverbs
Tree
Move
There
Wind
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Love is like a baby: it needs to be treated tenderly.
African Proverbs
Love
Like
Baby
Need
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The belly does not swell if a woman is not pregnant.
African Proverbs
Does
Swell
Not
Woman
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To love someone who does not love you, is like shaking a tree to make the dew drops fall.
African Proverbs
Love
Does
Tree
Fall
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It is difficult for two long-nosed lovers to kiss.
African Proverbs
Two
Long
Kiss
Love
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The vultures would not land at the village in which there is a wise old man.
African Proverbs
Would
Not
Which
Wise
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Copying everyone else all the time, the monkey one day cut his throat.
African Proverbs
Else
Time
Day
Cut
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When a king reigns, it is thanks to the people when a river sings, it is thanks to the stones.
African Proverbs
When
King
People
Sing
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If the palm of the hand itches it signifies the coming of great luck.
African Proverbs
Palm
Hand
Great
Luck
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African Proverbs
Lion
Flea
Trouble
More
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So many little things makes a man love a woman in a BIG way.
African Proverbs
Many
Little
Thing
Big
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When I think of the others’s misfortunes, I forget mine.
African Proverbs
When
Think
Mine
Forget
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If a blind man says he will throw a stone at you, he probably has his foot on one.
African Proverbs
Stone
You
Foot
One
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Supposing doesn't fill the grain basket it doesn't fill the larder.
African Proverbs
Fill
Grain
Basket
The
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To neglect one’s ancestors would bring ill-fortune and failure in life.
African Proverbs
Neglect
Bring
Life
Would
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Happiness requires something to do, something to love and something to hope for.
African Proverbs
Love
Hope
Something
For
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A bird that flies from the ground onto an anthill does not know that it is still on the ground.
African Proverbs
Bird
From
Ground
Know
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You can not tell a hungry child that you gave him food yesterday.
African Proverbs
Tell
Gave
Food
Can
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An okra tree does not grow taller than its master.
African Proverbs
Tree
Grow
Than
Master
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He is a fool whose sheep runs away twice.
African Proverbs
Fool
Sheep
Run
Twice
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When your neighbour’s horse falls into a pit, you should not rejoice at it, for your own child may fall into it too.
African Proverbs
Horse
Fall
Pit
Child
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African Proverbs
Head
Same
But
Not
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Even the fiercest leader in the world is overcome by sleep.
African Proverbs
Even
World
Sleep
The
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Birds sing not because they have answers but because they have songs.
African Proverbs
Bird
Sing
Have
They
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When a thing becomes perfect, it soon fades.
African Proverbs
When
Soon
Fade
Thing
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Only a medicine man gets rich by sleeping.
African Proverbs
Only
Man
Get
Rich
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Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.
Aldous Huxley
Can
Have
First
Has
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I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.
Alexander the Great
From
Too
Many
The
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B. B. King
Water
Taste
Black
From
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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
B. B. King
Want
One
Want
Get
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Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.
Barack Obama
Story
Destination
May
Our
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You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig.
Barack Obama
Put
You
Still
Can
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We will outstretch the hand if you unclench your fist.
Barack Obama
Will
Hand
Fist
Outstretch
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A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
Benjamin Franklin
Than
One
Learn
Great
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A man of words and not of deeds, is like a garden full of weeds.
Benjamin Franklin
Word
Deed
Full
Man
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