2049 African Proverbs / Page 3
- 21. A blacksmith has no need of an axe.
 - 22. A blind person knows his environment more than a visitor with eyes.
 - 23. A bottle that believes it's cracked to smile it will end up on the dustbin.
 - 24. A bowl should not laugh when a calabash breaks.
 - 25. A boy may cry; but a man as to conceal his pain.
 - 26. A bush that doesn't rotate baskets must not grow mushrooms.
 - 27. A butterfly thinks itself a bird because it can fly.
 - 28. A camel cannot see the crookedness of its neck.
 - 29. A camel never sees its own hump.
 - 30. A canoe peddler doesn't tell the crocodile he has along snout until he's crossed the river.

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