African Proverbs About Beauty

Every saying in the archive filed under beauty: 10 proverbs, 4 quotes. None of them carries a written explanation yet — the meanings are being written over time.

They come from Nigeria (3), Egypt (2), United Kingdom (2), United States (2) and Ethiopia (1). 3 have no recorded country and are shown simply as African proverbs — the archive does not guess at an origin it cannot support.

Named writers and speakers on this subject include Damon Albarn (1), Dennis Prager (1) and David Harewood (1).

A few from this collection:

• A beautiful thing is never perfect.
• A pretty basket does not prevent worries.
• When a once beautiful piece of cloth has turned into rags, no one remembers that it was woven by Ukwa master weavers.

Sayings here often sit under other subjects too — most often Marriage, Problem, Love and Trouble.

Or see every subject in the archive.