Another African saying inspired the business book
Beware the Naked Man Who Offers You His Shirt By Harvey Mackay (1996).
Original was “Beware of the naked man who offers you clothes” an African proverb used to call out hypocrites.
Hillary’s was culturally appropriated from an African proverb from the Nigerian Igbo culture, “Oran a azu nwa”.
Said to mean an entire community of people must interact with children for those children to grow in a safe and healthy environment.
A large chair does not make a king.
A happy man marries the girl he loves but a happier man loves the girl he marries.
He who eats another man’s food will have his own food eaten by others.
The youth walks faster but the elderly know the road.
A patient man will eat ripe fruit.
Two drops of water do not make a pool.
Money can’t talk but it can make lies look true.
"The throne is an over decorated piece of furniture. It's what behind the throne that counts." -- Napoleon
(As spoken in Waterloo (1970), screenplay by H.A.L. Craig, Sergey Bondarchuk & Vittorio Bonicelli)
Thanks for those sayings.
I met a guy that motorcycles all over the place. (I was doing work in Alaska - he had been on the road for some crazy number of miles - from the NE USA).
He said the happiest people he ever met were Africans living in small villages out in the middle of the desert.