The tongue hurts more than the teeth.
More Swahili Proverbs:
He who nurses vegeance is not called wise.Swahili
If water is split, it can not be gathered up.
Swahili
A lazy person with a nephwe does not eat dry rice.
Swahili
The Iabour of childbirth is known to the mother.
Swahili
The washer of corpses does no harm to the dead.
Swahili
Where there trees, there are no builders.
Swahili