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'''Proverbs from all of [[w:Africa|Africa]].'''
== B ==
== D ==
* Don't look where you fell, but where you slipped.
** English equivalent: Today is yesterday's pupil.
** {{cite book | last1 = Sr, Neil, Neil, Neal | year = 2011 | title = Police Instructor: Deliver Dynamic Presentations, Create Engaging Slides, \& Increase Active Learning | publisher = CreateSpace | page = 245 | isbn=1}}

*Don’t set sail using someone else’s star.
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== O ==
* Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
** Source for meaning: {{cite book|last1=Bennett|first1=Nigel|last2=Anderson|first2=Lesley|title=Rethinking Educational Leadership: Challenging the Conventions|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=whTcWnyncogC&pg=PA171|date=11 July 2003|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-0-7619-4924-4|page=171}}
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*One bad nut often destroys a lot of good nuts.

== S ==
* Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. (West African proverb)
** [[Theodore Roosevelt]], in a [http://www.lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm139.html letter to Henry L. Sprague] (26 January 1900)

== T ==
* '''The [[sun]] is the king of torches.'''
** West African proverb, quoted in ''Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages : Classified Subjectively and Arranged Alphabetically'' (1887) by Robert Christy, p. 322

* Tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
** {{cite book | last1 = Prospectus, Goldman | year = 2011 | title = Baseball Prospectus 2011 | publisher = John Wiley \& Sons | page = 496 | isbn=0470622067}}

== Y ==
* '''You condemn on hearsay evidence alone, your sins increase.'''
** Latin equivalent: When in doubt, in favour of the accused.
** [[Anonymous]] quoted in ''Apropos of Africa : Sentiments of Negro American Leaders on Africa from the 1800s to the 1950s'' (1969) edited by Adelaide Cromwell Hill and Martin Kilson

== See also ==
* [[Afrikaans proverbs]]
* [[Ila proverbs]]
* [[Ndebele proverbs]]
* [[Xhosa proverbs]]

[[Category:Proverbs]]