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25 Ancient African Proverbs About Love That Will Make You Rethink Everything by jub4luv(m): 8:58pm On Dec 01, 2015 |
1. When one is in love, a cliff becomes a meadow. Ethiopia 2. You know who you love but you can’t know who loves you. Nigeria 3. Where there is love, there is no darkness. Burundi 4. If anyone makes you laugh, it is not always because they love you. Kenya 5. If you marry a monkey for its wealth, the money goes and the monkey remains. Egypt 6. He who loves, love you with your dirt. Uganda 7. If love is a sickness, patience is the remedy. Cameroon 8. Love doesn’t rely on physical features. Lesotho 9. Love is a despot who spares no one. Namibia 10. To love someone who does not love you is like shaking a tree to make the dew drops fall. Congo 11. If a woman doesn’t love you, she calls you “brother.” Côte d’Ivoire 12. Don’t try to make someone hate the person he loves. For he will go on loving but he will hate you. Senegal 13. The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love. Morocco 14. Let your love be like the misty rain, coming softly but flooding the river. Liberia 15. Love for something makes a man blind and deaf. Sudan 16. If the full moon loves you, why worry about the stars? Tunisia 17. A letter from the heart can be read on the face. Kenya 18. One who marries for love alone will have bad days but good nights. Egypt 19. One who loves the vase, loves also what is inside. Tanzania/Kenya 20. Love doesn’t listen to rumors. Ghana 21. Do not treat your loved one like a swinging door: you are fond of it but you push it back and forth. Madagascar 22. Love, like rain, does not choose the grass on which it falls. South Africa 23. Even as the archer loves the arrow that flies, so too he loves the bow that remains constant in his hands. Nigeria 24. Don’t be so in love that you can’t tell when it’s raining. Madagascar 25. Love is a painkiller. African origin unknown |
Re: 25 Ancient African Proverbs About Love That Will Make You Rethink Everything by Nobody: 9:04pm On Dec 01, 2015 |
Non from M0zambique? |
Re: 25 Ancient African Proverbs About Love That Will Make You Rethink Everything by oshe11: 9:13pm On Dec 01, 2015 |
k |
Re: 25 Ancient African Proverbs About Love That Will Make You Rethink Everything by Kaytrick(m): 9:13pm On Dec 01, 2015 |
That number 11 ...hmm |
Re: 25 Ancient African Proverbs About Love That Will Make You Rethink Everything by Nobody: 9:15pm On Dec 01, 2015 |
Nice |
Re: 25 Ancient African Proverbs About Love That Will Make You Rethink Everything by FazzyKachi(m): 12:29am On Dec 02, 2015 |
[/b]11. If a woman doesn’t love you, she calls you “brother.” Côte d’Ivoire.[b] Still got me thinkin |
Re: 25 Ancient African Proverbs About Love That Will Make You Rethink Everything by itstpia8: 1:01am On Dec 02, 2015 |
Where in nigeria is #23 from? |
Re: 25 Ancient African Proverbs About Love That Will Make You Rethink Everything by Nobody: 1:10am On Dec 02, 2015 |
Oro sunukun |
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