Today’s African Proverb (1.16.12)
16 January 2012, by DailyLifelines
If a man wants to be friendly with wolves, he must first sharpen his spear. (Niger, Nigeria- Hausa) 
Categories: African Proverbs, Daily Lifelines, Lifelines
16 January 2012, by DailyLifelines
If a man wants to be friendly with wolves, he must first sharpen his spear. (Niger, Nigeria- Hausa) 
Categories: African Proverbs, Daily Lifelines, Lifelines
10 January 2012, by DailyLifelines
When a lion eats a bad person and it is not killed, tomorrow it will eat a good person. (Zambia- Lozi) 
Categories: African Proverbs, Daily Lifelines
12 April 2011, by DailyLifelines
To have more and more friends means to have less and less foes. (Ethiopia) 
Categories: African Proverbs, Daily Lifelines
24 February 2011, by DailyLifelines
If the fight is tomorrow, why then clench your fist today? (Burundi)
Categories: African Proverbs, Daily Lifelines, Lifelines
23 February 2011, by DailyLifelines
You are blaming the hawk, while the falcon is killing the chickens. (Kiswahili)
Categories: African Proverbs, Daily Lifelines, Lifelines
13 February 2011, by DailyLifelines
The house of the unjust oppressor is destroyed, though it should happen in distant times. (Egypt)
Categories: African Proverbs, Daily Lifelines, Lifelines
9 February 2011, by DailyLifelines
Do not quarrel over a matter in which you are wrong. (Egypt)
Categories: African Proverbs, Daily Lifelines, Lifelines
8 February 2011, by DailyLifelines
When your eyes are poked your grip on someone’s throat loosens. (Ethiopia)
Categories: African Proverbs, Daily Lifelines
5 February 2011, by DailyLifelines
Starting a war is easy. Ending it is not. (Egypt) 
Categories: African Proverbs, Daily Lifelines, Lifelines
2 February 2011, by DailyLifelines
We let him in, and now he shows us the door. (Egypt)
Categories: African Proverbs, Daily Lifelines
19 January 2011, by DailyLifelines
If someone is chasing you and has not stopped, you don’t say: “I am tired of running.” (Ghana) 
Categories: African Proverbs, Daily Lifelines
18 January 2011, by DailyLifelines
A flea can trouble a lion more than the lion can harm a flea. (Kenya)
Categories: African Proverbs, Daily Lifelines
15 January 2011, by DailyLifelines
An egg should not wrestle with a rock! (Wolof) 
Categories: African Proverbs, Daily Lifelines
13 January 2011, by DailyLifelines
Only a goat that is tired of life, invites a lion to dinner. (Nigeria)
Categories: African Proverbs, Daily Lifelines
18 December 2010, by DailyLifelines
He who finds the occasion to hurt others will be hurt by them tomorrow. (South Africa/Azania)
Categories: African Proverbs, Daily Lifelines
Enter e-mail address for Daily Lifeline:
No spam- 100% secure