Swahili Proverbs (424 Proverbs)
- Voluntary is better than force.
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- When an oxhorn of a news man is sounded, something is wrong.
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- Where there are many, nothing goes wrong.
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- You canot know the bugs of a bed that you have not lain on.
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- A cat belonging to the house is not chased away.
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- A good purpose is like a doctor and evil purpose corrupts.
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- A new fowl always has string around its legs.
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- A reserve will not decay.
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- A traveller does not make a mess where he had made a camp as he might one day come back.
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- An elephant hunter usually gets killed by an elephant.
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- Better delay and get there.
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- Do not abuse palm-wine tappers while drunkness persists.
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- Everyone should contribute when collection is made.
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- He that does not fear a bull must be a bull himself.
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- He who eats another mans food will have his own food eaten by others.
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- He who plays with mud will get splashed.
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- I ate honey in my childhood, and its sweetness is still in my tooth.
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- If you find the river flooded, wait.
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- Nine is near ten.
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- One who keeps silent, endures.
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- Running on the roof finishes at the edge.
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- The area covered by your life is not as important as what you can build on it.
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- The destroyer of a country is a citizen of that country.
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- The poison for a word is a word.
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- They is no distance that has no end.
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- Wait a minute! wait a minute! harms the stomach.
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- When brothers quarrel, take a hoe and go and dig; and when they make it up, take a basket and patter the crop.
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- Where there are old people, nothing goes wrong.
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- You dont take viengeance on silliness.
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- A cat can never he made to lie on its back.
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- A good thing sells it self a bad one advertises it self.
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- A new thing is a souce of joy even if is sore.
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- A rope parts where it is thinnest.
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- A traveller is poor, even though he being a ruler.
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- An empty hand is not licked.
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- Better to stumble with toe than toungue.
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- Do not compete with Kari, Kari comes from God.
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- Eyes have no screens, they see all that is within view.
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- He wanders around by day a lot, learns a lot.
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- He who eats bitter things gets sweet things too.
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- He who praises rain has been rained on.
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- I have anointed you with kohl, do you, in return, anoint me with pepper?.
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- If you find your own house is on fire, you may be sure that your neighbour's house is burning much more fiercely.
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- Nobleness is not noble ancestry.
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- One who rides two horses at once will split asunder.
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- Scabics are given to him who has no fingernails.
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- The beareved begins the wailing latter others join.
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- The drunkard's money is being consumed by palm-wine trapper.
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- The prayer of the chicken hawk does not get him the chicken.
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- They is no incence for something rotting.
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- War has no eyes.
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- when the cat goes away, mice reign.
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- Where there are plenty of trees there are no builders.
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- You dont throw stones at an approching craclin noise in the bush wait and see what is it first.
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- A chick is not taught how to scratch up the ground.
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- A goshawk is an egg child, if sleeps hungry its his own fault.
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- A nice day, a gift for a street peddlar.
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- A rotten coconut in a heap spoils the wholesome ones.
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- A tree of your height cannot shade you.
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- An evil Indian but his bussiness is good.
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- Big houses conceal a lot.
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- Do not forget what it is to be a sailor because of being a captain yourself.
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- Fire does not beget fire in the end it begets ashes.
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- He who asks for salt does so for his own cooking pot.
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- He who eats with you will not die with you except he who was born with you.
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- He who renounces his ancestrey is like a slave.
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- I shall not suffer illness while doctors abound.
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- If you love other people's children, you will love your own even more.
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- Not all that have claws are lions.
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- One who selects his hoe is not real farmer.
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- Serve even an unbeliever to attain your own ends.
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- The begining is bud the end is coconut.
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- The ear does not surpass the head.
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- The process of eating is not taught to a child.
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- They is no secret between two people.
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- Water flows down the valley does not climb the hill.
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- When the head of the family dies, that family breaks up.
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- Where there is finery, there lies the snare.
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- You may climb a thorn tree, and be unable to come down.
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- To a physician a sick man is a garden.
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