Showing posts with label love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label love. Show all posts

Monday, 25 July 2011

Proverb on Love


The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love. ~Moroccan Proverb

Love is like a baby: it needs to be treated tenderly. ~Congolese Proverb

The cabin of a loved one is never too far away. ~Bantu Proverb

You know who you love, but you can't know who loves you. ~Nigerian Proverb

Love and let the world know, hate in silence. ~Egyptian Proverb

If love is torn apart you cannot stitch the pieces together again. ~Malagasy Proverb

Let your love be like the misty rain, coming softly, but flooding the river. ~Liberian & Madagascan Proverb

Love is like young rice: transplanted, still it grows. ~Malagasy Proverb

When an only kolanut is presented with love, it carries with it more value than might otherwise be associated with a whole pod of several kolanuts. ~Nigerian Proverb

Love for something makes a man blind and deaf. ~Sudanese Proverb

One who marries for love alone will have bad days but good nights. ~Egyptian Proverb

Lovers do not hide their nakedness. ~Congolese Proverb

If the full moon loves you, why worry about the stars? ~Tunisian Proverb

If anybody makes you laugh, it is not always because he loves you. ~Kikuyu Proverb

If love is a sickness, patience is the remedy. ~Cameroonian Proverb

Don't be so much in love that you can't tell when it's raining. ~Malagasy Proverb

A loved one has no pimples. ~Kenyan Proverb

Coffee and love taste best when hot. ~Ethiopian Proverb

Love is better than a whip. ~Nigerian Proverb

Don't try to make someone hate the person he loves, for he will still go on loving, but he will hate you. ~Senegalese Proverb

To love someone who does not love you, is like shaking a tree to make the dew drops fall. ~Congolese Proverb

When one is in love, a cliff becomes a meadow. ~Ethiopian Proverb

Love is just like rice -- plant it elsewhere and it grows. ~Malagasy Proverb

Do not treat your loved one like a swinging door: you are fond of it but you push it back and forth. ~Madagascan Proverb

He who loves, loves you with your dirt. ~Ugandan Proverb

Talking with one another is loving one another. ~Kenyan Proverb

The one who loves an unsightly person is the one who makes him beautiful. ~Ganda Proverb

He may say that he loves you, wait and see what he does for you. ~Senegalese Proverb

The best part of happiness lies is in the secret heart of a lover. ~Ugandan Proverb

Even as the archer loves the arrow that flies, so too he loves the bow that remains constant in his hands. ~Nigerian Proverb

To love the king is not bad, but a king who loves you is better. ~Wolof Proverb

Where there is love there is no darkness. ~Burundian Proverb

If there is cause to hate someone, the cause to love has just begun. ~Wolof Proverb

It is better to be loved than feared. ~Proverb from Senegal & Sierra Leone

Happiness requires something to do, something to love and something to hope for. ~Swahili Proverb

Let your love be like drizzle: it comes softly, but still swells the river. ~Malagasy Proverb

Love is a despot who spares no one. ~Namibian Proverb

African Proverbs On Love


True love means what's mine is yours.

He who doesn't feel jealousy is not in love.

Perhaps you do not understand me because you do not love me.

It's better to fall from a tree and a break your back than to fall in love and break your heart.

A fish and bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together.

To be able to love other people you must be able to love yourself.

Love is a painkiller.

Love never gets lost it's only kept.

Love is like cough you can't hold it back.

The path leads towards loved ones not thorns.

Why take away something by force which you can obtain by love.

Loving someone that does not love you is like loving the rain that falls in the forest.

He who loves the vase loves also what is inside.

To love that one who never loves you is like rain falling in the forest.

Brothers love each other when they are equally rich.

Pretend you are dead and you will see who really loves you.

It is difficult for two long-nosed lovers to kiss.

There is no physician who can cure the disease of love.

Don't look into the eyes of your lover, or you will see what he has told many women before.

It's much easier to fall in love than to stay in love.

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