African Proverbs About Fight

Every saying in the archive filed under fight: 8 proverbs, 2 quotes. 1 of them carry a written explanation of what it means; the rest are being added over time.

They come from South Africa (1), Ethiopia (1), Cameroon (1), Uganda (1) and Ghana (1). 4 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 Desmond Tutu (1) and Thomas Sankara (1).

A few from this collection:

• The horse may carry the warrior to the battlefield, but it will never fight the battle.
• Do not try to fight a lion if you are not one yourself.
• If the fight is tomorrow, then why should you clench your fist today?.

Sayings here often sit under other subjects too — most often Caution and Animal.

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