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Post by onlymark on Apr 13, 2010 5:26:20 GMT
"Empty vessels make the most noise"
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2010 10:57:08 GMT
Deyana -  'He who marries a real beauty is seeking trouble.' - Accra proverb, Ghana (What does that mean? marry an ugly woman for some peace?) 'A hyena cannot smell its own stench.' - Kalenjin (Kenya) 'Do not follow a person who is running a way'. - Kalenjin (Kenya) 'Water can not be forced uphill.' - Kalenjin (Kenya) 'The eye is a coward.' - Kalenjin (Kenya) 'You can not take away someone's luck.' - Kalenjin (Kenya) 'A low-class man will just talk; deeds are the hallmark of a gentleman.' - (Knappert, p. 84, Swahili) 'Do not vacillate or you will be left in between doing something, having something and being nothing'. - Ethiopia So much wisdom..... |
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Post by spindrift on Apr 13, 2010 16:02:37 GMT
Deyana - real beauties tend to be flighty and would probably leave a husband if something better materialized? what do you think?  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2010 16:19:40 GMT
Oh yeah, definitely, Spinny. ;D
Real beauties = trouble/high maintenance.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2011 14:49:44 GMT
“When the music changes, so does the dance”
“When two elephants fight, it is the grass that gets trampled”
“Tears are best dried with your own hand”
“He who has done evil, expects evil” (this one is about my boss)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2012 5:15:45 GMT
This phrase came up in the French presidential campaign: "A lion who copies a lion becomes a monkey." I thought it sounded like a typical African saying, but when I looked it up, I saw that it is attributed to Victor Hugo. |
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