My favorite proverb about KNOWLEDGE is:
- Knowledge is like a garden: if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested. (-Guinea) (34%, 22 Votes)
- If you know only one tune you cannot dance all night. (-Malawi) (28%, 18 Votes)
- To learn and to be able is better than begging. (-West Africa) (20%, 13 Votes)
- To one who does not know, a small garden is a forest. (-Nigeria) (13%, 8 Votes)
- What you do not know, you will not recognize. (-Burundi) (9%, 6 Votes)
- A hunter has no mysterious notions about the forest. (-Mozambique) (6%, 4 Votes)
Total Voters: 64
Start Date: March 21, 2014 @ 12:36 pm
End Date: No Expiry
My favorite proverb about PEACE is:
- The value of peace is never known until the peace is disturbed. (-Sierra Leone) (38%, 26 Votes)
- A day of peace in times of stress is like a thousand days in paradise. (-Nigeria) (36%, 25 Votes)
- If a person loves peace, it does not make her or him a coward. (-Nigeria) (19%, 13 Votes)
- Every animal eats where it finds peace. (-Ghana) (12%, 8 Votes)
- The road to peace is not far. (-Gambia) (9%, 6 Votes)
Total Voters: 69
Start Date: March 21, 2014 @ 11:54 am
End Date: No Expiry
Which of the following FUNNY proverbs is your favorite?
- It is okay for a child to play with the mother’s breasts, but not the father’s testicles. (-Guinea) (37%, 220 Votes)
- He who has diarrhea knows the direction of the door without being told. (-Uganda) (29%, 172 Votes)
- There’s no virgin in a maternity ward. (-Cameroon) (21%, 122 Votes)
- If you are ugly, you must learn to dance or to make love. (15%, 90 Votes)
- Don’t mistake a short man for a boy. (-Nigeria) (12%, 71 Votes)
Total Voters: 590
Start Date: March 5, 2014 @ 10:28 am
End Date: No Expiry
Which of the following proverbs is your FAVORITE?
- The one-eyed man does not thank God until he sees a blind man. (-Nigeria) (30%, 14 Votes)
- The fool speaks, the wise man listens. (-Ethiopia) (23%, 11 Votes)
- If you can walk, you can dance, if you can talk, you can sing. (-Zimbabwe) (15%, 7 Votes)
- A fool is a wise man's ladder. (-South Africa) (15%, 7 Votes)
- When the bush is on fire, the antelope ceases to fear the hunter's bullet. (-Nigeria) (15%, 7 Votes)
- It is the chef who knows the contents of the pot the best. (-South Africa) (11%, 5 Votes)
Total Voters: 47
Start Date: March 5, 2014 @ 10:21 am
End Date: No Expiry
Which POPULAR African proverb is your FAVORITE proverb?
- If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. (-West Africa) (40%, 18 Votes)
- I am because we are. (-Southern Africa) (22%, 10 Votes)
- It takes a whole village to raise a child. (-West Africa) (22%, 10 Votes)
- When elephants fight, the grass gets hurt. (-Central, East Africa) (16%, 7 Votes)
Total Voters: 45
Start Date: March 5, 2014 @ 9:27 am
End Date: No Expiry
My favorite proverb about JUSTICE is:
- People may pass judgment without knowing the truth; God always renders punishment because God knows the whole truth. (Ethiopia) (44%, 38 Votes)
- You don’t expect to win a case in someone else’s village. (Zambia) (24%, 21 Votes)
- All of the justice in the world isn't fastened up in the courthouse. (US- Black Communities) (17%, 15 Votes)
- Justice becomes injustice when it makes two wounds on a head which only deserves one. (Angola, DRC) (16%, 14 Votes)
- If chickens were judges, cockroaches would be sentenced. (Jamaica) (9%, 8 Votes)
Total Voters: 87
Start Date: July 14, 2013 @ 10:01 am
End Date: No Expiry
My favorite proverb about PROVERBS is:
- When the truth is missing, proverbs are used to discover it. (Yoruba) (33%, 17 Votes)
- A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles difficulties. (Yoruba) (33%, 17 Votes)
- When the occasion arises, there is a proverb to suit it. (Rwanda) (29%, 15 Votes)
- A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. (Ethiopia) (29%, 15 Votes)
- Proverbs are the daughters of experience. (Sierra Leone) (23%, 12 Votes)
Total Voters: 52
Start Date: June 13, 2013 @ 10:14 am
End Date: No Expiry
My favorite proverb about MARRIAGE is:
- Patience makes a marriage succeed. (Ghana) (46%, 31 Votes)
- Before you marry keep both eyes open; after marriage shut one. (Jamaica) (34%, 23 Votes)
- If a marriage is sweet or if it is bitter, it is the one who is married who can tell. (Ghana) (28%, 19 Votes)
- One who marries for love alone will have bad days but good nights. (Egypt) (18%, 12 Votes)
- Too much talk breaks marriage. (Kenya) (15%, 10 Votes)
Total Voters: 68
Start Date: June 1, 2013 @ 8:05 pm
End Date: No Expiry
My favorite proverb about LOVE is:
- Love has to be shown by deeds not words. (Kiswahili) (47%, 45 Votes)
- He who loves you, loves you with your dirt. (Uganda) (27%, 26 Votes)
- Love does not rely on physical features. (Lesotho) (22%, 21 Votes)
- If I have decided to love somebody, I oblige myself to be patient with him/her. (Tanzania) (18%, 17 Votes)
- To be smiled at is not to be loved. (Kenya) (14%, 13 Votes)
- Dogs don't love people, they love the place where they are fed. (Burundi) (14%, 13 Votes)
Total Voters: 96
Start Date: June 1, 2013 @ 7:57 pm
End Date: No Expiry
My favorite proverb about RESPECT is:
- If you are taller than your father, that does not make you his peer. (Malawi) (32%, 30 Votes)
- The fingers of the man who has lost one are not counted in his presence. (Yoruba) (31%, 29 Votes)
- If you are clever, you say good morning to the cook. (Ghana) (27%, 26 Votes)
- Do not call the forest that shelters you a jungle. (Ethiopia) (23%, 22 Votes)
- Before you ask a man for clothes, look at the clothes that he is wearing. (Nigeria) (14%, 13 Votes)
- If you find them worshipping a donkey, bring them grass. (Morocco) (11%, 10 Votes)
Total Voters: 95
Start Date: June 1, 2013 @ 6:00 pm
End Date: No Expiry
My favorite proverb about SEX is:
- The penis comes erect as if it intends to kill, but the vagina swallows and tames it. (Nigeria) (49%, 49 Votes)
- If you want sex while traveling, travel with your wife. (Mali) (26%, 26 Votes)
- Better a short penis, than sleeping alone. (Cote d'Ivoire) (19%, 19 Votes)
- A fresh vagina wakes up a weak penis. (Ghana) (18%, 18 Votes)
- Lovers do not hide their nakedness. (Congo) (18%, 18 Votes)
Total Voters: 100
Start Date: June 1, 2013 @ 5:52 pm
End Date: No Expiry
My favorite proverb about STRENGTH is:
- He who torments another only teaches him to strengthen himself. (Yoruba) (35%, 22 Votes)
- The strength of the palm tree is in its branches. (Ghana) (34%, 21 Votes)
- The strong don't need clubs. (Senegal) (26%, 16 Votes)
- One blow will not knock a strong man down. (Niger, Nigeria) (21%, 13 Votes)
- That which strength fears is hunger. (Ghana) (18%, 11 Votes)
- The strength of one person only does not go far. (Yoruba) (15%, 9 Votes)
Total Voters: 62
Start Date: June 1, 2013 @ 5:48 pm
End Date: No Expiry
My favorite proverb about TRUTH is:
- Truth came to market but could not be sold; however, we buy lies with ready cash. (Ghana) (35%, 29 Votes)
- A lonely truth can be brought down by a pack of lies. (Mali) (23%, 19 Votes)
- Whereas a liar takes one thousand years to go on a journey, the one who speaks the truth follows and overtakes the liar in a day. (Ghana) (22%, 18 Votes)
- Truth tellers make no mistake. (Ghana) (12%, 10 Votes)
- Truth is not afraid of the gun. (Ghana) (8%, 6 Votes)
Total Voters: 82
Start Date: June 1, 2013 @ 5:23 pm
End Date: No Expiry
My favorite proverb about WOMEN is:
- If you educate a man you educate an individual, but if you educate a woman you educate a nation. (Ghana (67%, 62 Votes)
- A female tongue gets things more easily than a strong man. (Ghana) (16%, 15 Votes)
- Women are the best promoters of the young fruit of the lemon tree. (Ghana) (16%, 15 Votes)
- Where a woman is not, the feast is not tasty. (Ethiopia) (15%, 14 Votes)
- A woman's clothes are the price her husband pays for peace. (Central Africa) (9%, 8 Votes)
Total Voters: 92
Start Date: June 1, 2013 @ 5:20 pm
End Date: No Expiry
What I like about LifelinesProverbs.com:
- Content (72%, 44 Votes)
- Authenticity (41%, 25 Votes)
- Resources (36%, 22 Votes)
- Appearance (25%, 15 Votes)
- Ease of Use (23%, 14 Votes)
- Something different (20%, 12 Votes)
- Nothing (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 61
Start Date: June 1, 2013 @ 5:16 pm
End Date: No Expiry
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