07/11/2014

African Proverbs on Beauty!

One who plants grapes by the road side, and one who marries a pretty woman, share the same problem. ~Ethiopian Proverb
  • Don't be stupid with your treasure, leave it out dangling and it gets taken! Being possessive also drives the bride or groom away! People are born free yet their physical attributes makes theme targets! Beauty is in the eye if the beholder, a perceived beautiful gal in the eyes of many can be ugly to one and a perceived ugly gal could be a special one to someone! She who knows she is beautiful disguises herself from the crowd but he who has a heart can see through the mud stained face!
Beautiful from behind, ugly in front. ~Uganda Proverb
  • Physical attributes does not guarantee a beautiful personality!
The skin of the leopard is beautiful, but not his heart. ~Baluba proverb
  • There are those who put up a front to lure their pray!
Ugliness with a good character is better than beauty. ~Nigerian
Proverb
  • Only an elder or someone who has experienced the ugliness of a character can say this! Men tend to go first for beauty and when they find a beast are ready to kiss a toad!
A beautiful one hurts the heart. ~African Proverb
  • Only after it has been taken for granted! If one can't get what they want they become angry!
Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor. ~Yoruba Proverb
  • Appreciation for the finer things in life lifts the spirit.
The surface of the water is beautiful, but it is no good to sleep on. ~Ghanaian Proverb
  • Who said? Those who know how to swim find water more relaxing than the bed! :) How about sex in the swimming pool? 
If there is character, ugliness becomes beauty; if there is none, beauty becomes ugliness. ~Nigerian Proverb
  • My Nigerians are begging to be ridiculed for preaching what they don't teach their kids to understand before it's too late. When pissed off everyone sees the character! Everyone has principles by which they live by, but an environment can compromise it.
You are beautiful, but learn to work, for you cannot eat your beauty. ~Congolese Proverb
  • Beauty can earn you good money! Modelling! A skill can add more good to physical beauty! A beautiful mind in a beautiful body is priceless, remember with age and once you have kids all that beauty can be gone!
The one who loves an unsightly person is the one who makes him beautiful. ~Ganda Proverb
  • Out if sight makes people lovely! We miss those we do not see or who we wish for.hmmm some are forgotten too!
Having beauty doesn’t mean understanding the perseverance of marriage. ~African Proverb
  • A cage can make a bird into a toad!
You are beautiful because of your possessions. ~Baguirmi Proverb
  • Who you are, what you can makes you attractive and or envied!
Every woman is beautiful until she speaks. ~Zimbabwean Proverb
  • Men don't fall for excuses!
Three things cause sorrow to flee; water, green trees, and a beautiful face. ~Moroccan Proverb
  • Everyone seeks Relaxation!
A beautiful thing is never perfect. ~Egyptian Proverb
  • Things are perfect, humans aren't!
Patience is the mother of a beautiful child. ~Bantu Proverb
  • Patience is required in bringing up children! Weather they will be good or not depends on their nature and favourable stars which is nurture to some extent! To be a good parent is what every individual who wishes to have kids must understand before having any! Focusing on a child alone and forgetting yourself can make one grumpy. There are self centred parents who happen to get the luck of having good kids! There are overbearing parents that can ruin a good child!
  • A beautiful at heart girl and a strong boy with good manners are their parent(s) pride! Don't get your kids to be too good just to appease the masses!
  • Most african mothers think that having a physically beautiful daughter is a blessing because there will be suitors of choice, they patiently raise that child in a good way then end up marrying her off to a monster!
There is no beauty but the beauty of action. ~Moroccan Proverb
  • Women who do are more respected, sometimes can be taken for granted! A woman who doesn't ask for help is often forgotten! Learn to say and do as you said you would, it cultivates character within and respect from without! Don't expect recognition for things you willed by yourself!
  • Word and action are equally required! Say and do, do and say are both ways to achievements! Sometimes asking first can give more headache, better to do and explain later!
Judge not your beauty by the number of people who look at you, but rather by the number of people who smile at you. ~African Proverb
  • Asses yourself but don't judge yourself! An assessment is an overview of your words and actions results, the reward isn't what you should be measuring! Our universal Judge is there for that!
A pretty face and fine clothes do not make character. ~Congolese Proverb
  • It creates an image that one may be forced to live up to!
Youth is beauty, even in cattle. ~Egyptian Proverb
  • Everyone is cute when babies!
A pretty basket does not prevent worries. ~Congolese Proverb
  • High fences don't keep the bandits away! Parading stones in a pretty box may present them as treasure! It's in the use that tools are given their name! A diamond may glitter but it's also used in drilling holes!
It’s those ugly caterpillars that turn into beautiful butterflies after seasons. ~African Proverb
  • When you go through hard times you find out who you are and what others are alike! Good times are rewards that last in the heart that knows its worth even amidst pressure!
The most beautiful fig may contain a worm. ~Zulu Proverb
  • Pretty isn't beauty! Beauty can't be ugly!
It is only a stupid cow that rejoices at the prospect of being taken to a beautiful abattoir. ~African Proverb
  • A wise woman is a sheep for slaughter! Sooner or latter cunning catches up with her. Be smart and know that most men fall for glitter but stay with a jewel.
A woman who pursues a man for sex loses her spiritual beauty. ~African Proverb
  • Lust is defeating of ones courage to love! A boy is not a man and neither is a girl a woman! When everyone is tired of the cat and mouse chase they find who they always wanted to be and with!
A chicken with beautiful plumage does not sit in a corner. ~African Proverb
  • True beauty can't be hidden!
The cook does not have to be a beautiful woman. ~Shona Proverb
  • The work speaks louder than the uniform!
Beautiful words don’t put porridge in the pot. ~Botswana Proverb
  • A woman who is a mother and a wife can not retain her youthful soft hands but may retain her good looks, it's reflection is in the well being of her family!
She is beautiful; she has love, understands; she respects herself and others; everyone likes, loves and honors her; she is a goddess. ~African Proverb
  • Good and bad experiences culture a character! And a goddess is capable of both good and bad knowing it moulded her it will mould others too!
There is always a winner even in a monkey’s beauty contest. ~African Proverb
  • Who stands out, will always stand out!
Dress up a stick and it’ll be a beautiful bride. ~Egyptian Proverb
  • Anyone can be everything they wish to be! Plastic surgery exists. :)
An ugly child of your own is more to you than a beautiful one belonging to your neighbor. ~Ganda Proverb
  • Territorial display of affections doesn't make you the leader of the pack! Patronising your own doesn't make them the best! Comparing yours to others makes ugly of everyone!
Even the colors of a chameleon are for survival not beauty. ~African Proverb
  • In different places we become different, an environment can affect an individual, but character affects others! A leader isn't a chameleon!
Beautiful discourse is rarer than emerald ~ yet it can be found among the servant girls at the grindstones. ~Egyptian Proverb
  • A frog can be a princess in disguise! A pauper isn't a tramp!
When a once-beautiful piece of cloth has turned into rags, no one remembers that it was woven by Ukwa master weavers. ~Igbo Proverb
  • Nothing ever lasts! But a name can live for eternity!
A woman’s polite devotion is her greatest beauty. ~African Proverb
  • A true gentle man makes his woman feel safe and in his strength she humbles herself! Ever wondered why some rich men have bitchy wives? He may have money but no character!
There are many colorful flowers on the path of life, but the prettiest have the sharpest thorns. ~African Proverb
  • She knows the value of her petals and protects them with her wits!
  • Not every prickly flower keeps the bee! Simple and sweet makes the best nectar!
He who marries a beauty marries trouble. ~Nigerian Proverb
  • He who is stupid leaves his garden unkept! If a man marries a woman for her beauty he soon finds out she has a brain! A true beauty knows when to wear a mask!
Despite the beauty of the moon, sun and the stars, the sky also has a threatening thunder and striking lightening. ~African Proverb
  • A woman without character is a girl without a bodyguard!
Greatness and beauty do not belong to the gods alone. ~Nigerian Proverb
  • Ambition makes carnal men vain!
  • Humbleness rises one to meet God!
Roosters’ tail feathers: pretty but always behind. ~Malagasy Proverb
  • The rooster is named by his crow, one may be distracted by the feathers!
Beauty is not sold and eaten. ~Nigerian Proverb
  • Try modelling and writing books! It sells to the eyes and feeds the heart of men!
She is like a road – pretty, but crooked. ~Cameroonian Proverb
  • She is pretty but your mind could be crooked! He who compares covets and scorns! I have known guys who to distract their competition paint the target black and 3 months latter when questioned say it is love. Guys be smart cos the wise are taking your babe. She may end up miserable with the idiot because you were too chicken or daft to go after her.
Why they like an ugly person takes long for a beautiful person to know. ~African Proverb
  • We project our weaknesses on others!
If you find “Miss This Year” beautiful, then you’ll find “Miss Next Year” even more so. ~Nigerian Proverb
  • The search for lust never ends hopefuly until one finds love!
The beauty of a woman becomes useless if there is no one to admire it. ~African Proverb
  • Real Beauty never lacks admiration!

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