To see a man’s true colors, tell him you’re saving yourself for marriage. To see a woman’s true colors, tell her you’re poor.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Busy hands achieve more than idle tongues.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
You don’t have to remind a flower when its time to bloom is near, it has been preparing for it all of its life.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Spring is proof that there is beauty in new beginnings.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If you don't take inventory of your blessings, ingratitude will try to steal them from you.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Intelligence is the icing, but wisdom is the cake.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A tree does not despair when its fruit falls to the ground, because it knows in due time, its seeds will rise.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The loveliest gifts sometimes come wrapped in the ugliest paper.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If God wanted the woods to be quiet, He would not have given birds songs to sing.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A few hours spent reading a book is better than a lifetime of ignorance.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Flowers are prettiest where they are watered the most.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Light the candle of success with the flame of excellence.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If people are not dancing to your tune, change the song.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A storm is an artist who passes by on her way to paint your rainbow.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Fall from ignorance, and you will rise to reason.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Be like the sun; warm to everyone, even your enemies.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Ask for a fish, and you only get one; ask for a net, and you can catch dozens.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If roses were not special weeds would not envy them.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A tree does not stop growing because the wind blew off a few of its leaves.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If you want people to dance to your tune, sing beautiful songs.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A wise bird does not lend even the smallest of its feathers to a hunter.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Love sees more with its eyes closed than hate with its eyes open.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A flower has no choice in where it is planted, but does have a choice in the direction it grows.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Love that causes you pain is better than hate that brings you pleasure.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Don't pluck a rose's petals and then ask the rose why it is sad.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A cat may have nine lives, but a wise person has a hundred.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Life may be a bed of roses, but roses still have thorns.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Don't burn your bridges until you build better ones.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Money is the most beautiful woman in the world;even when old and wrinkled, men are head-over-heals in love with her.
~ Matshona Dhiliwayo
It is incredible how many hurts can be healed by the two words, 'I'm sorry.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Don't cry over spilt milk when you can milk another cow.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Education costs an arm and a leg, but ignorance costs you your mind and your soul.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Follow your heart only if it has your mind's feet.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo