African Words of Wisdom

He who marries a beauty marries trouble.

 

Quick loving a woman means quick not loving a woman. (“Marry in haste and repent at leisure.”)

 

When a person hates you, he will beat your animals.

 

The hawk having caught my chicken will not stay because it knows it has done (wrong).

 

When the hawk hovers over the yard the owner of the fowls feel uneasy.

 

No one would expose fowls on the top of a rock in the sight of a hawk.

 

Hawks go away for the nesting season and fools think they have gone forever.

 

A bird walking nevertheless has wings.