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"Before you get married, keep both eyes open, and after you marry, close one eye." - African proverb
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Re: African proverbs
Mon, October 15, 2007 - 9:18 PM"young men think that old men are fools...
...old men KNOW young men are fools."
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Mon, October 15, 2007 - 9:28 PMHa ha! That's a keeper. I love it!
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Tue, October 16, 2007 - 5:10 AM“Until the Lions get their own historian, Tales of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.” -- African Proverb (this is my favorite) -
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Wed, October 17, 2007 - 9:58 PMoh wow...these are great....more... more -
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Thu, October 18, 2007 - 7:08 PMDon't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm. -
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Thu, October 18, 2007 - 7:11 PMWhen elephants fight, the grass dies.
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Thu, October 18, 2007 - 7:12 PMOne camel does not make fun of another camel's hump. -
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Thu, October 18, 2007 - 9:52 PMwow man these are sooooo good
you have the floor
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Re: African proverbs
Thu, October 18, 2007 - 11:11 PMThanks, d2a, I had never heard those before. :-)
Here's another one, ya'll:
"Don't insult the crocodile until you cross the water." (Be careful about criticizing others.) - African proverb -
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Fri, October 19, 2007 - 5:14 PMthat´s one of the things i learned in l.a.--you never know who someone knows. they might just be a waiter, but the owner of the restaurant might be their father or mother...
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Fri, October 19, 2007 - 8:28 PM"Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together." - African proverb
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Fri, October 19, 2007 - 8:31 PM"Rats don't dance in the cat's doorway." (Don't invite trouble.) - African proverb
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Wed, October 24, 2007 - 12:35 AM"No one tests the depth of a river with both feet." - African proverb
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Tue, October 30, 2007 - 11:24 AM"The axe forgets; the tree remembers." - African proverb
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Tue, October 30, 2007 - 11:25 AM"The ruin of a nation begins in the homes of its people." - Ashanti of Ghana
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Tue, November 6, 2007 - 9:54 AM"Equality is not easy, but superiority is painful." - Serere proverb
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Sun, November 11, 2007 - 3:40 PM"Where you will sit when you are old shows where you stood in youth." – Yoruba proverb -
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Desmond Tutu
Sat, December 29, 2007 - 2:15 PMNot proverbs, but quotes from the Nobel Peace prize winner.....
"You see, forgiveness can be likened to the fresh air that is outside or the sunlight that is outside and you have a room and the windows are closed and the curtains are drawn. The wind is still out there. My forgiveness is still available to you. But it won't find access until you open the window and the light streams in. You draw the curtains apart, and the fresh air comes in. You, by your contrition and confession say, 'I am sorry; forgive me.' Open and my forgiveness enters your being."
There are no ordinary people in my theology, but it is the small people, the ones who used to be nonentities, they are the stars and for the world to know that those called—so-called ordinary people are incredible.
Desmond Tutu from an interview with Bill Moyers
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Grafitti from Kenya
Wed, January 23, 2008 - 1:00 PMTo educate a woman is to educate the whole nation.
Grafitti written on the side of a clinic in Kenya, from an Oxfam calendar. -
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Thu, January 24, 2008 - 9:03 AMwow
guess we should start paying more attention to the writtings on the wall -
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Tansanian proverb
Thu, June 26, 2008 - 5:30 PMWe may forget with whom we laughed, but not with whom we shared tears.
Tansanian proverb
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Sat, January 3, 2009 - 1:31 PM"He who forgives ends the quarrel." - African proverb -
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Re: African proverbs
Wed, October 14, 2009 - 5:12 PMHold a true friend with both hands.
Nigerian Proverb
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