The African continent is famed for its thought-provoking proverbs, particularly those revolving around beauty. In this part of the world, proverbs on beauty center around qualities such as kindness, humility, and wisdom, while cautioning against the dangers of vanity and superficiality. True beauty, they remind us, comes from within. These proverbs are a powerful tool for examining one’s perceptions of beauty, challenging people to re-evaluate not only their outlook but also their character. Africans stand out, with their lush hair, curvaceous bodies, and beautiful hearts, embodying this concept of beauty.
African Proverbs On Beauty
1. Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor.
2. One who plants grapes by the roadside, and one who marries a pretty woman, share the same problem.
3. The skin of the leopard is beautiful, but not his heart.
4. Ugliness with a good character is better than beauty.
5. A beautiful one hurts the heart.
6. If there is character, ugliness becomes beauty; if there is none, beauty becomes ugliness.
7. You are beautiful, but learn to work, for you cannot eat your beauty.
8. The one who loves an unsightly person is the one who makes him beautiful.
9. Having beauty doesn’t mean understanding the perseverance of marriage.
10. You are beautiful because of your possessions.
11. Every woman is beautiful until she speaks.
12. Three things cause sorrow to flee; water, green trees, and a beautiful face.
13. Judge not your beauty by the number of people who look at you, but rather by the number of people who smile at you.
14. Patience is the mother of a beautiful child.
15. There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
16. Judge not your beauty by the number of people who look at you, but rather by the number of people who smile at you.
17. A pretty face and fine clothes do not make character.
18. A pretty basket does not prevent worries.
19. It’s those ugly caterpillars that turn into beautiful butterflies after seasons.
20. The most beautiful fig may contain a worm.
21. It is only a stupid cow that rejoices at the prospect of being taken to a beautiful abattoir.
22. A woman who pursues a man for sex loses her spiritual beauty.
23. A chicken with a beautiful plumage does not sit in a corner.
24. The cook does not have to be a beautiful woman.
25. Beautiful words don’t put porridge in the pot.
26. There is always a winner even in a monkey’s beauty contest.
27. She is beautiful; she has love, and understands; she respects herself and others; everyone likes, loves, and honors her; she is a goddess.
28. Your beauty may take you there, but your character will bring you back.
29. Why do they like an ugly person, it takes a long time for a beautiful person to know it.
30. Even the colors of a chameleon are for survival, not beauty.
31. He who loves, loves you with your dirt.
32. A woman’s polite devotion is her greatest beauty.
33. The most beautiful women in the world are like good coffee…black as hell strong as hope and sweet as love.
34. There are many colorful flowers on the path of life, but the prettiest have the sharpest thorns.
35. An ugly child of your own is more to you than a beautiful one belonging to your neighbor.
36. A man who hangs around a beautiful girl without saying a word ends up fetching water for guests at her wedding.
37. Beauty comes from within, a beautiful heart creates a beautiful person.
38. A beautiful thing is never perfect.
39. The surface of the water is beautiful, but it is no good to sleep on.
40. Youth is beauty, even in cattle.
41. Dress up a stick and it’ll be a beautiful bride.
42. He who marries a beauty marries trouble.
43. Greatness and beauty do not belong to the gods alone.
44. Beauty is not sold and eaten.
45. If you find Miss this year beautiful, then you’ll find Miss next year even more so.
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46. Roosters’ tail feathers: pretty but always behind.
47. When a once beautiful piece of cloth has turned into rags, no one remembers that it was woven.
48. Beautiful discourse is rarer than emerald, yet it can be found among the servant girls at the grind at the grindstones.
49. Three things cause sorrow to flee; water, green trees, and a beautiful face.
50. Whoever tells you to go and bathe wants you to be beautiful.
