Quotes by Zimbabwean Authors - Page 11

Life is too short to listen to fools, and too important to ignore the wise.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Be slow to teach, and quick to learn.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A kiss a day keeps your wife's wrath away.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Looking for a wife is like fishing; before you go, make sure you don't have a hole in your net.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A flawed rose is better than a flawless dandy lion.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Roses do not take beauty advice from weeds.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A wise person makes one error,and learns ten lessons.He makes two errors,and learns twenty lessons.He makes three errors,and learns thirty lessons.He makes few errors,and learns countless lessons.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Help more than is needed.Care more than is required.Give more than is expected.Love more than is anticipated.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Hear others, and you will be heard.Understand others, and you will be understood.Help others, and you be will be helped.Love others, and you will be loved.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Avoid impious people,run from fools,seek out the wise.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Encourage many,enlighten many,and you will empower many.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Train the ears to hear more.Train the eyes to see more.Train the hands to do more.Train the feet to accomplish more.Train the mind to think more.Train the heart to feel more.Train the soul to love more.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A star never lets anything dull its sparkle, not even darkness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
An intelligent man only argues with his wife when she has lost her voice.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When you are walking on water it is fear, not sharks, that sinks you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
To patch up a relationship, understanding is the needle, and love is the thread.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Don't be afraid of marrying the right person even if they come from the wrong background.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Life is a very important assignment. God will score us at the end.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When they judge you, yawn.When they misunderstand you, smile.When they underestimate you, laugh.When they condemn you, ignore.When they envy you, rejoice.When they oppose you, prevail.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Justice is blind, but judges have eyes.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If our eyes could see everything, every man would see his own faults.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Do not hold grudges against those who try to keep you down; the higher you go, the smaller they become. Do not trust those who try to push you down once you are up;the more envious they are, the more dangerous they become.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you want to rise, drop everyone that is weighing you down.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you feed a child, you strengthen him for a day; if you educate him, you strengthen him for a lifetime.
Matshona Dhliwayo
My words are my thesis, my actions are my dissertation, and my life is my philosophy.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Even in silence a heart can scream.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If the heart had a brain kind people would rule the world.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You will never be free until you free yourself from the prison of other people's opinions of you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Far help seldom solves near troubles.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Your mind is your world.Your heart is your nature.Your soul is your universe.Your life is your creation.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The fastest way to end an argument with your wife is to admit she’s right.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If he's not a wreck without you, you married the wrong man.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Be like a rose; no matter how many thorns you encounter in life, bloom.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Don't look for Mrs. Right if all your character demonstrates is you are Mr. Wrong.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The distance between you and the door when you have had enough of your spouse is love.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When the heart says “yes” it is difficult for the mind to say “no.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you stand in the way of two people who were meant to be together, destiny's train will run you over.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love is the only rose whose thorn's prick is sweet.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Hate may have its hour, but love will have its day.
Matshona Dhliwayo
For a marriage to work a husband must learn these two words: “Yes dear.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Nice guys finish last but bad guys don't finish at all.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Allow people to walk all over your carpet, not all over you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The bitterest fruit tastes sweet when you share it with someone you love.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You cannot carry your past without dropping your future.
Matshona Dhliwayo
As a bird with beautiful feathers is the target of hunters, so the gifted are targets of the envious.
Matshona Dhliwayo
One soul-mate is enough to face life's countless soul-enemies.
Matshona Dhliwayo
There are many fish in the sea, but never let a good one swim away.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Boys are raw materials that women manufacture into products called men.
Matshona Dhliwayo
I was my own boss, but that all changed the day I got married.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Count your summers, not your winters.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If money could buy happiness, the rich would not drown their sorrows in expensive wine.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You are like a seed; your greater beauty lies not on the outside, but within.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A quality wife guarantees you a quality life.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Raise your thoughts. Ennoble your desires. Better your actions. Elevate your life.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Teach men how to fish, but also teach them how to preserve fish.
Matshona Dhliwayo
And if you do see any pirates, I don't want you to pick up any rough manners from them. Do you understand?
Alexander McCall Smith
The road might seem long,But the joy of arriving makes it all worth it.All I have to do is be strong.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Be the sun in someone’s dark sky.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Your perception of your dream changes as you walk toward it.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your perception...you see what is, where most people see what they expect.
Tsitsi Dangarembga