1. When one is in love, a cliff becomes a meadow. Ethiopia
2. You know who you love but you can’t know who loves you. Nigeria
3. Where there is love, there is no darkness. Burundi
4. If anyone makes you laugh, it is not always because they love you. Kenya
5. If you marry a monkey for its wealth, the money goes and the monkey remains. Egypt
6. He who loves, love you with your dirt. Uganda
7. If love is a sickness, patience is the remedy. Cameroon
8. Love doesn’t rely on physical features. Lesotho
9. Love is a despot who spares no one. Namibia
10. To love someone who does not love you is like shaking a tree to make the dew drops fall. Congo
11. If a woman doesn’t love you, she calls you “brother.” Côte d’Ivoire
12. Don’t try to make someone hate the person he loves. For he will go on loving but he will hate you. Senegal
13. The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love. Morocco
14. Let your love be like the misty rain, coming softly but flooding the river. Liberia
15. Love for something makes a man blind and deaf. Sudan
16. If the full moon loves you, why worry about the stars? Tunisia
17. A letter from the heart can be read on the face. Kenya
18. One who marries for love alone will have bad days but good nights. Egypt
19. One who loves the vase, loves also what is inside. Tanzania/Kenya
20. Love doesn’t listen to rumors. Ghana
21. Do not treat your loved one like a swinging door: you are fond of it but you push it back and forth. Madagascar
22. Love, like rain, does not choose the grass on which it falls. South Africa
23. Even as the archer loves the arrow that flies, so too he loves the bow that remains constant in his hands. Nigeria
24. Don’t be so in love that you can’t tell when it’s raining. Madagascar
25. Love is a painkiller. African origin unknown 
