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African Proverbs on Beauty


One who plants grapes by the road side, and one who marries a pretty woman, share the same problem. ~Ethiopian Proverb

 Beautiful from behind, ugly in front. ~Uganda Proverb

 The skin of the leopard is beautiful, but not his heart. ~Baluba proverb

 Ugliness with a good character is better than beauty. ~Nigerian Proverb

 A beautiful one hurts the heart. ~African Proverb

Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor. ~Yoruba Proverb

 The surface of the water is beautiful, but it is no good to sleep on. ~Ghanaian Proverb

 If there is character, ugliness becomes beauty; if there is none, beauty becomes ugliness. ~Nigerian Proverb

 You are beautiful, but learn to work, for you cannot eat your beauty. ~Congolese Proverb

 The one who loves an unsightly person is the one who makes him beautiful. ~Ganda Proverb

 Having beauty doesn’t mean understanding the perseverance of marriage. ~African Proverb

You are beautiful because of your possessions. ~Baguirmi Proverb

 Every woman is beautiful until she speaks. ~Zimbabwean Proverb

 Three things cause sorrow to flee; water, green trees, and a beautiful face. ~Moroccan Proverb

 A beautiful thing is never perfect. ~Egyptian Proverb

 Patience is the mother of a beautiful child. ~Bantu Proverb

There is no beauty but the beauty of action. ~Moroccan Proverb

 Judge not your beauty by the number of people who look at you, but rather by the number of people who smile at you. ~African Proverb

 A pretty face and fine clothes do not make character. ~Congolese Proverb

 Youth is beauty, even in cattle. ~Egyptian Proverb

 A pretty basket does not prevent worries. ~Congolese Proverb
It’s those ugly caterpillars that turn into beautiful butterflies after seasons. ~African Proverb

 The most beautiful fig may contain a worm. ~Zulu Proverb

 It is only a stupid cow that rejoices at the prospect of being taken to a beautiful abattoir. ~African Proverb

 A woman who pursues a man for sex loses her spiritual beauty. ~African Proverb

 A chicken with beautiful plumage does not sit in a corner. ~African Proverb

The cook does not have to be a beautiful woman. ~Shona Proverb

 Beautiful words don’t put porridge in the pot. ~Botswana Proverb

 She is beautiful; she has love, understands; she respects herself and others; everyone likes, loves and honors her; she is a goddess. ~African Proverb

 There is always a winner even in a monkey’s beauty contest. ~African Proverb

 Dress up a stick and it’ll be a beautiful bride. ~Egyptian Proverb
An ugly child of your own is more to you than a beautiful one belonging to your neighbor. ~Ganda Proverb

 Even the colors of a chameleon are for survival not beauty. ~African Proverb

 Beautiful discourse is rarer than emerald ~ yet it can be found among the servant girls at the grindstones. ~Egyptian 

 When a once-beautiful piece of cloth has turned into rags, no one remembers that it was woven by Ukwa master weavers. ~Igbo Proverb

 A woman’s polite devotion is her greatest beauty. ~African Proverb

There are many colorful flowers on the path of life, but the prettiest have the sharpest thorns. ~African Proverb

 He who marries a beauty marries trouble. ~Nigerian Proverb

 Despite the beauty of the moon, sun and the stars, the sky also has a threatening thunder and striking lightening. ~African Proverb

 Getting only a beautiful woman is like planting a vine on the roadside everyone feeds on it. ~African Proverb

 Greatness and beauty do not belong to the gods alone. ~Nigerian Proverb

Roosters’ tail feathers: pretty but always behind. ~Malagasy Proverb

 Beauty is not sold and eaten. ~Nigerian Proverb

 She is like a road – pretty, but crooked. ~Cameroonian Proverb

 Why they like an ugly person takes long for a beautiful person to know. ~African Proverb

 If you find “Miss This Year” beautiful, then you’ll find “Miss Next Year” even more so. ~Nigerian Proverb

 The beauty of a woman becomes useless if there is no one to admire it. ~African Proverb


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