98 Sayings of South African Origin

1. "The poor man's proverb is never quoted." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

2. "When you become wise of the healer, also become wise of the sickness." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

3. "A grave must not be dug until a person is dead." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

4. "The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago; the next best time is now." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

5. "Strength of a man has no ending." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

6. "As great birds die the eggs rot." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

7. "Those who do not have pots, often get a good harvest of pumpkins." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

8. "A traveler is provided for." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

9. "No hill without gravestones, no valley without shadows." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

10. "When you find a song being sung, sing it too." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

11. "No one drinks medicine on behalf of a sick person." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

12. "You are not great just because you say you are." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

13. "Where there is honey, there are bound to be ants." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

14. "Before you milk a cow tie it up." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

15. "The baboon does not see its forehead." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

16. "It shall dawn again tomorrow." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

17. "Roasted locusts eaten at night bring dangerous dreams." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

18. "A river is filled by tributaries." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

19. "Plenty sits still, hunger is a wanderer." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

20. "The girl with stars in her eyes will shine like the moonlight." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

21. "No death is different." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

22. "The river is filled by the streams." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

23. "The owl eats its eye, the one with misty eyes dies of hunger." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

24. "A termite grows up in dry wood, and yet comes to maturity." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

25. "He who has no intelligence is happy with it." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

26. "The impatient person eats goat; the one who hesitates eats beef." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

27. "The last to be rich, ascends the mountain." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

28. "Two eyes help each other." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

29. "The foot pains in sympathy with the toe." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

30. "The foot has no nose." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

31. "Greatness is not rushed for." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

32. "Hope does not kill; I shall live in hope of getting what I seek another day." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

33. "Even the maid has a family." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

34. "The dupe who takes possession of a lame ox is seldom recognized as a fool." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

35. "A cow is milked by the one who knows it." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

36. "The one who makes law doesn't know the law." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

37. "No stake ever grew old with the bark on." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

38. "Learning never ends, its the days that end." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

39. "Cattle will not attack its owner." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

40. "Orphans mourn for each other." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

41. "Abundance does not spread; famine does." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

42. "What the poor man says is not listened to." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

43. "One who perseveres has no misfortune." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

44. "Walls have ears and little pots too." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

45. "The healer does not diagnose himself." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

46. "The last partridge to rise gets the most sticks thrown at it." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

47. "The one who ate first is the same as the one who ate last." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

48. "The drums of war are the drums of hunger." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

49. "The farting of the head of the homestead is ignored by the commoner." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

50. "To grow is to see things." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

51. "The wrong-headed fool who refuses counsel, will come to grief." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

52. "It's hot when it's poured, but tomorrow it will have cooled down." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

53. "Old age does not announce itself." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

54. "Children are like plant offshoots that ever go forward." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

55. "Until the lions have their historians, tales of hunting will always glorify the hunter." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

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

 

57. "The greatest death is laughter." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

58. "The fool who owns an ox is seldom recognized as a fool." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

59. "A fool is a wise man's ladder." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

60. "Dawn doesn't come twice to wake a person up." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

61. "No man can perfectly empty a pot with a ladle." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

62. "Each seed waits for its time to be sowed." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

63. "If your buttocks burn, you know you have done wrong." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

64. "When the elephant is slain all the tribes gather together to eat of it." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

65. "Getting married is like putting a snake in your pocket." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

66. "When you have touched a woman, you have struck a rock." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

67. "When a bird builds its nest it uses the feathers of other birds." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

68. "When you have a lot to do, start with a meal." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

69. "The seed waits for its garden or ground where it will be sown." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

70. "You might stint me, but be generous to my child." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

71. "The foot is a witch." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

72. "Two wives, two pots of poison." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

73. "Habit defeats the mind." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

74. "Once you have found your first diamond, you will never give up looking." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

75. "When you climb the mountain and reach the top, do not forget the branches shrubs that helped your footing." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

76. "It is hunger that killed the man with many wives." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

77. "Hope never kills, but rushing things does." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

78. "In a herd of cattle, it doesn't matter which is ahead." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

79. "A strawberry doesn't ripen according to the wishes of a baboon." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

80. "A man takes from another man's back." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

81. "When you shoot a zebra in the black stripe, the white dies too; shoot it in the white and the black dies too." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

82. "People are people through other people." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

83. "The one chased away with a club comes back, but the one chased away with reason does not." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

84. "The one behind is the one ahead." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

85. "Almost is not eaten." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

86. "The pool has dried up, and the fish is in trouble." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

87. "Don't dirty the well after drinking water." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

88. "The hand that rocks the cradle rules the nation and its destiny." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

89. "The heart is like a goat that has to be tied up." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

90. "Let the hand go, let the hand come back." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

91. "The mouth can cross any river." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

92. "Growing is seeing." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

93. "If he keeps on imitating everybody the monkey will one day cut his own throat." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

94. "If you are looking for a fly in your food it means that you are full." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

95. "By pounding the dough the bread will rise." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

96. "One who enters a hut does not smell the termites roasting in the boiler." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

97. "I heard is not the same as I saw." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet

 

98. "People are not equal unlike teeth." (South African Sayings) Click to tweet