Top 50 Mozambican Proverbs

Mozambique is one of Africa’s most diverse nations with a population of over 29 million people. Mozambican people are very friendly, hospitable, and wise. If you get to have a chit-chat with one of the elders, you are likely to become more knowledgeable. This article consists of top Mozambican proverbs that teach, correct, and uphold the morals of the society, like other African proverbs. Let’s have a look!

Top 50 Mozambican Proverbs

1. You cannot dance well on only one leg.
2. Slander by the stream will be heard by the frogs.
3. On a dead tree there are no monkeys.
4. If you do not travel, you will marry your own sister.
5. A snake that you can see does not bite.
6. Witch doctors do not sell their potions to each other.
7. Once a man has been bitten by a lion, he buys a dog.
8. Never marry a woman who has bigger feet than you.
9. He who led me in the night, will be thanked by me at daybreak.
10. No tattoo is made without blood.
11. If you are not able to build a house at once, you must first build a shed.
12. Do not try to fight a lion if you are not one yourself.
13. Madness does not govern a country, discussion does.
14. The bee is the doctor of flowers.
15. Hunger makes the big fish come out of hiding in the great river.
16. By being grateful, a man makes himself deserving of yet another kindness.
17. If the chicken attacks you in the morning, RUN first because it might have grown teeth overnight.
18. A fool has many days.
19. If while climbing a tree you insist on going beyond the top, the earth will be waiting for you.
20. If the mat is not in a man’s hand, he sleeps while standing.
21. The crab does not bite; it is its handshake that hurts.
22. A Wiseman cannot save a decaying country as manure content can not save a decaying land.
23. When you live next to the cemetery, you cannot weep for everyone.
24. An elephant fears attack from several sides.
25. Slander by the stream will be heard by the frogs.
26. By preserving the egg walks on legs.
27. A bird does not change its feathers because the weather is bad.
28. N elephant with a bad leg limps along.
29. When a lion goes astray, all the other animals are kings of the jungle.
30. A parasite cannot live alone.
31. One does not cut the tusks of an elephant.
32. There is no cockerel without a comb.
33. If you fail to be a lizard in your own land, you will fail to be a crocodile in another land.
34. When two elephants meet on a narrow bridge, they get nowhere until one of them backs down or lies down.
35. The grasshopper that was eaten by the hornbill must have been deaf.
36. If a pregnant woman falls, the child in the womb answers.
37. The sound of the drum is not determined by its size nor the skills of the drummer but by his strength.
38. A man does not run among thorns for no reason; either he is chasing a snake or a snake is chasing him.
39. There is no elephant that complains about the weight of its truck.
40. The lech that does not let go even when it is filled dies on the dry land.
41. The vulture says that it has no business with the barbers.
42. A river that cannot be controlled is bound to burst its banks.
43. An anthill that is destined to become a giant will ultimately become one, no matter how many times it is destroyed by elephants.
44. One who enters a forest does not listen to the breaking of the twigs in the brush.
45. On a dead tree, there are no monkeys.
46. 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.
47. The news has gone round and round, yet the person it concerns is deaf.
48. Whether the knife falls on the melon or the melon on the knife, the melon suffers.
49. A reflection does not see itself.
50. Fire devours the grass, but not the roots.