56 Sayings of Mozambican Origin

1. "Witch doctors do not sell their potions to each other." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

2. "If the mat is not in a man's hand, he sleeps standing." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

3. "The news has gone round and round, yet the person it concerns is deaf." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

4. "Hunger makes the big fish come out of hiding in the great river." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

5. "If you do not travel, you will marry your own sister." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

6. "Do not try to fight a lion if you are not one yourself." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

7. "If men are cruel to the cat, the domestic cat becomes a wild animal." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

8. "On a dead tree there are no monkeys." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

9. "If the owner of the calabash calls it worthless, then the others will join him to pack it with rubbish." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

10. "An elephant with a bad leg limps along." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

11. "The vulture says that it has no business with the barbers." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

12. "If a pregnant woman falls, the child in the womb answers." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

13. "When two elephants meet on a narrow bridge, they get nowhere until one of them backs down or lies down." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

14. "A sinking vessel needs no navigation." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

15. "The leech that does not let go even when it is filled dies on the dry land." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

16. "Fire devours the grass, but not the roots." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

17. "The sound of a drum is not determined by its size nor the skills of a drummer but by his strength." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

18. "A river that cannot be controlled is bound to burst its banks." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

19. "If you want to carry the world, do not tie it with a rope, otherwise the rope will break and the world will crush you." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

20. "The bee is the doctor of flowers." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

21. "If the chicken attacks you in the morning, RUN first because it might have grown teeth overnight." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

22. "If you are not able to build a house at once, you must first build a shed." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

23. "Whether the knife falls on the melon or the melon on the knife, the melon suffers." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

24. "Never marry a woman who has bigger feet than you." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

25. "When you live next to the cemetery, you cannot weep for everyone." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

26. "One who enters a forest does not listen to the breaking of the twigs in the brush." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

27. "A wise man cannot save a decaying country as manure cannot save an eroding land." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

28. "The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

29. "Slander by the stream will be heard by the frogs." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

30. "A bird does not change its feathers because the weather is bad." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

31. "An elephant which kills a rat is not a hero." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

32. "There is no cockerel without a comb." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

33. "The crab does not bite; it is its handshake that hurts." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

34. "No tattoo is made without blood." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

35. "A fool has many days." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

36. "An elephant fears attack from several sides." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

37. "Once a man has been bitten by a lion, he buys a dog." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

38. "There is no elephant that complains about the weight of its trunk." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

39. "A reflection does not see itself." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

40. "One does not cut the tusks of an elephant." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

41. "You cannot dance well on only one leg." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

42. "He who led me in the night, will be thanked by me at daybreak." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

43. "There are no shortcuts to the top of the palm tree." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

44. "By persevering the egg walks on legs." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

45. "By being grateful, a man makes himself deserving of yet another kindness." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

46. "An ant-hill that is destined to become a giant ant-hill will ultimately become one, no matter how many times it is destroyed by elephants." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

47. "If you want to swallow a mango seed, you first of all calculate the diameter of your anus." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

48. "The grasshopper that was eaten by the hornbill must have been deaf." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

49. "A parasite cannot live alone." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

50. "Madness does not govern a country; discussion does." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

51. "A snake that you can see does not bite." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

52. "A man does not run among thorns for no reason; either he is chasing a snake or a snake is chasing him." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

53. "If you fail to be a lizard in your own land, you will fail to be a crocodile in another land." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

54. "When the lion goes astray, all the other animals are king of the jungle." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

55. "When the lion is crippled, the hare goes to his house for debt recovery." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet

 

56. "If while climbing a tree you insist on going beyond the top, the earth will be waiting for you." (Mozambican Sayings) Click to tweet