1. Falling in love is easy, staying in love is the hustle. (- Africa)
2. It is better to be loved than feared. (- Sierra Leone)
3. One doesn’t love another if one doesn’t accept anything from her. (- Chad, Niger, Nigeria- Kanuri/Bornu)
4. Love doesn’t listen to rumors.
5. Love is like a baby: it needs to be treated tenderly. (- Congo)
6. If a woman doesn’t love you, she calls you brother. (- Ivory Coast– Baule)
7. People who love one another do not dwell on each other’s mistakes. (- Kenya- Gikuyu)
8. The house of a person we love is never far. (- Kenya- Gikuyu)
9. A letter from the heart can be read on the face. (- Kiswahili)
10. Love has to be shown by deeds, not words. (- Kiswahili)
11. Love doesn’t rely on physical features. (- Lesotho)
12. He who loves you; loves you with your dirt. (- Uganda- Ganda)
13. The way you got married isn’t the way you’ll get divorced. (- Haiti)
14. He who doesn’t like chattering women must stay a bachelor. (- Congo)
15. It is the habit that a child form at home, that follows them to their marriage. (- Nigeria)
16. If you marry a monkey for his wealth, the money goes and the monkey remains as is. (- Egypt)
17. Having beauty doesn’t mean understanding the perseverance of marriage. (- Africa)
18. If you do not travel, you will marry your own sister. (- Mozambique)
19. Marriage is like a groundnut: you have to crack them to see what is inside. (- Ghana- Akan)
20. The buttocks are like a married couple though there is constant friction between them; they will still love and live together. (- Africa)
21. He who marries a beauty marries trouble. (- Nigeria)
22. It is better to be married to an old lady than to remain unmarried. (- Uganda)
23. A woman who is not successful in her own marriage has no advice to give to her younger generations. (- Nigeria)
24. The man may be the head of the home but the wife is the heart. (- Kenya- Gikuyu)
25. He was entrapped by the evening, it has cost him his marriage. (- Bantu)
26. One who loves you, warns you. (- Uganda- Baganda)
27. Talking with one another is loving one another. (- Kenya)
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