Algerian Proverbs
The thinnest bread finds itself married to bread
Arabic Proverbs
Marry the girl of a good family, though she be seated on a mat, very poor
Marry amongst strangers, thus you will not have feeble posterity
Marry the distant, marry not the near
Berber Proverbs
You have captured my liver (the liver is considered to be the organ of love among the Berber)
Burundi Proverbs
Where there is love there is no darkness
Caribbean Proverbs
A good "live with" is better than a bad marriage
The same mouth that courts you doesn't marry you
Getting married is nothing, it's assuming the responsibility of marriage that counts
Marry for love, work for money
The way you got married is not the way you will get divorced
Egyptian Proverbs
He who loves a thing often talks of it
If you love, love the moon; if you steal, steal a camel
If you have no relatives, get married
If you marry a monkey for his wealth, the money goes and the monkey remains as is
Don't play matchmaker for your son but rather for your daughter
The shadow of a man is better than that of a wall (i.e. it is better to be have a man than not to)
Whoever marries my mother, I will call him uncle
Like a bride's mother... does nothing yet acts busy
Take a wife while you are young that she may make a son for you while you are youthful - Egyptian scribe Ani from Thebes
A beautiful thing is never perfect
If you are wise, look after your house, love your wife without alloy
Ethiopian Proverbs
When in love, a cliff becomes a meadow
A woman married without consultation runs away without consultation
Ghanaian Proverbs
Marriage is like a groundnut; you have to crack them to see what is inside
It is Mr.Old-Man-Monkey who marries Mrs.Old-Woman-Monkey
So many little things make a man love a woman in a big way
One who is looking for a wife does not speak with contempt about women
Kenyan Proverbs
If you laugh at your mother-in-law, you'll get dirt in your eye
Liberian Proverbs
If you marry a beautiful woman, you marry trouble
Madagascar Proverbs
Sadness is a valuable treasure, only discovered in people you love
Don't be so much in love that you can't tell when it's raining
The man that is loved by his wife has no trouble conversing
Moroccan Proverbs
The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love
Do not correct with a strike that which can be taught with a kiss
Many are the roads that do not lead to the heart
A wise woman has much to say and yet remains silent
There is no queue at the gate of patience
He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for
If there were no cold Friday evenings and boring Saturdays, no one would get married any more
Instruct a man, you instruct an individual. Instruct a woman, you instruct a nation
One who pervades the great universe is seen by none unless a man knows the unfolding of love
The hand you cannot bite, kiss
Mozambiquan Proverbs
Never marry a woman who has bigger feet than you
Nigerian Proverbs
A woman who is not successful in her own marriage has no advice to give her younger generations
A man that begets a barren cannot have a grandchild
It is the habit that a child forms at home that follows them to their marriage
He who marries a beauty marries trouble
If a friend hurts you, run to your wife
It is the wife who knows her husband
A man's first wife never complains of neglect from the penis, the first morsel never complains of insufficient sauce
"Now the marriage begins," says the woman who has been beaten with thorns
The husband is the tie and the wife is the parcel; when the tie breaks, the parcel loosens
The man who says he will not marry a woman with other admirers will not marry a woman
Sierra Leonean Proverbs
It is only when you look at a bride's eye is when you know she is crying
Sudanese Proverbs
One thread for the needle, one love for the heart
Ugandan Proverbs
Take away the wife of a strong man only when he is out
Courtship is not marriage
Zimbabwean Proverbs
A man that does not lie shall never marry
Zulu Proverbs
Love, like rain, does not choose the grass on which it falls
Anonymous African Country
A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers
He who marries a beauty marries trouble
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