A hasty dog always burns his mouth.
Sol Plaatjie
South African intellectual, journalist, linguist, politician, translator and writer; founding member and first General Secretary of the South African Native National Congress; regarded as the first Black South African to write a novel in English
6 pieces
- Lived
- 1876–1932
- Born
- Orange Free State
- Died
- Johannesburg
- Nationality
- South Africa
- Known as
- writer, politician, translator, journalist
- Era
- 20th century
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Works (6)
There’s always a return to the ruins, only to the womb there is no return.
So long as there are two men left on earth there will be war.
A man was not made to live alone. Had it not been for Mhudi, I don’t think you would have known me at all. She made me what I am. I feel certain that your manhood will never be recognized as long as you remain wifeless.
The viewpoint of the ruler is not always the viewpoint of the ruled.
Never be led by a female lest thou fall over a precipice.