Bantu Proverbs (72 Proverbs)
- Cunning comes to an end, what remains is folly.
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- People get to know one another when traveling.
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- When there is on a red-hot hoe, it is not grasped.
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- Cut of the sick part while it is still small.
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- Respect a little child, and let it respect you.
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- Where there is a friend, one does not have to call, he will come of his own accord.
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- Dance, father, people's eyes don't eat, they just stare.
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- The bull should be taken by the horns, a man at his word.
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- Words in conversation are like beans, one breaks them off where they are ripe.
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- Days are many, what is one is life.
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- The cabin of a loved one is never too far away.
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- You do not teach a giraffe to run.
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- Days cannot be tied in a bundle.
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- The insolence of shortness is to stretch itself big.
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- You take a bull by the horns and a man by his words.
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- Even if we eat, earth will eventually enter our mouth.
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- The judge also dies.
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- Young man, countries practice witchcraft on one another.
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- Even if you are cunning, you will not tie water up in a bale of grass.
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- The owner of the skin is the one to tan it.
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- Your friend, one doesn't stare at his forehead, one stares at his stomach.
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- Even if your bee-hive has no honey in it, you shouldn't break it up.
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- The tortoise stores its wisdom in his shell.
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- A bone does not bring itself, it is people that bring it.
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- He was entrapped by the evening, it has cost him his marriage.
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- The wise are as rare as eagles that fly high in the sky.
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- A case is not to be decided from one mouth.
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- Hunger has no friend.
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- There is no return, worse luck; for could I return, I would foresee what has come into the country.
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- A child one does not instruct on return, one instructs him when going.
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- It is better to have no law than not enforcing it.
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- They are happy, the free men that have their fathers.
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- A kingdom's strength is in mutual honor.
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- It is the grass that knows where the snake goes.
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- We celebrated at the wax door, and all the time the honeycomb was empty within.
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- A redeemer of people is a walker with people.
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- Just one by one white hairs have come, and thus have they grown.
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- What is not bitter is good to eat.
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- A stick one bends while it is still green.
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- Mother carry me, and I tomorrow will carry you.
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- What makes the drum pleasing is the song.
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- Adjoining houses always burn.
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- One doesn't follow a wild beast into its lair.
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- What nature gives us is not refused.
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- Chieftanship is not infectious.
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- One mouth doesn't taste the beer.
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- What one won't eat by itself, one will eat when mixed with other food.
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- Only heaven can see the back of a sparrow.
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- Work is good provided you do not forget to live.
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- No man can paddle two canoes at the same time.
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- Who suffers from diarrhea, is not afraid of the dark.
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- Earth is like a prison: we all go in through the same door, but we stay in different cells.
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- Whenever I work hard for other people, I always sleep on an empty stomach.
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- Away from home the girl picks forbidden fruit.
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- Visitors' footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick.
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- A woman's clothes are the price her husband pays for peace.
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- There are forty kinds of lunacy, but only one kind of common sense.
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- A thief does not like to be robbed.
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- The road doesn't tell the traveler what lies ahead.
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- A good deed will make a good neighbor.
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- The power of the crocodile is in the water.
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- A dead man does not know where his grave is.
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- The most stupid chicken always challenges the wildcat.
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- The hunter who always comes home with meat is a thief.
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- The horizon will not disappear as you run towards it.
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- The eye never forgets what the heart has seen.
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- The egg teaches the chicken how to breed.
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- The earth is a beehive; we all enter by the same door but live in different cells.
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- Stroke your dog and he will steal eggs.
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- Patience is the mother of a beautiful child.
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- Every beast roars in its own den.
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- The bitter heart eats its owner.
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