Congolese Proverbs (66 Proverbs)
- The worm that gnaws on the bean is the one inside the bean.
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- You are beautiful; but learn to work, for you cannot eat your beauty.
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- The son shoots a leopard; the father is proud.
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- Love is like a baby: it needs to be treated tenderly.
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- A cat goes to a monastery, but she still remains a cat.
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- The portion that a man keeps for himself is usually not the smallest.
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- Let him speak who has seen with his eyes.
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- A bald-headed man will not grow hair by getting excited.
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- The nuts from a palm tree don't fall without dragging a few leaves with it.
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- If you tell people to live together, you tell them to quarrel.
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- The mother-in-law shows you her thighs without shame, you are the embarrassed one.
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- I own a cow in heaven, but I cannot drink her milk.
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- Don't buy a boat that is under water.
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- The iron never takes advice from the hammer.
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- He who is free of faults, will never die.
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- You inherit from the dead, not from the sick.
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- The impotent man does not eat spicy foods.
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- He who doesn't like chattering women must stay a bachelor.
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- You do not teach the paths of the forest to an old gorilla.
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- The fly has no pity for the thin man.
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- Great events may stem from words of no importance.
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- Wood may remain ten years in the water, but it will never become a crocodile.
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- The flesh of a young animal tastes flat.
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- Don't cut off the monkey's tail before it is dead.
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- Woe to the high spirited bride whose mother-in-law is still alive.
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- Pride goes only as far as one can spit.
(Congolese Proverb)
- Don't buy the salt if you haven't licked it yet.
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- When the bee comes to your house, let her have beer; you may want to visit the bee's house some day.
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- Prepare yourself for when the water comes up to your knees.
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- Do not dispose of the monkey's tail before he is dead.
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- The snake and the crab don't sleep in the same hole.
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- One knife will not cut another knife; one cheat will not cheat another cheat.
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- Being well dressed does not prevent one from being poor.
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- What is said over the dead lion's body, could not be said to him alive.
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- No matter how long the night may be, the day is sure to come
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- An idiot will cross an ox with an elephant.
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- Two birds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.
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- No matter how hard you throw a dead fish in the water, it still won't swim.
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- A priest sees people at their best, a lawyer at their worst, but a doctor sees them as they really are.
(Congolese Proverb)
- To love someone who does not love you, is like shaking a tree to make the dew drops fall.
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- No matter how full the river, it still wants to swell more.
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- A pretty face and fine clothes do not make character.
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- Those who inherit fortunes are frequently more of a problem than those who made them.
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- Man is like palm-wine: when young, sweet but without strength; in old age, strong but harsh.
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- A little subtleness is better than a lot of force.
(Congolese Proverb)
- The teeth are smiling, but is the heart?
(Congolese Proverb)
- Lower your head modestly while passing, and you will harvest bananas.
(Congolese Proverb)
- A house with two keys is worth nothing.
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- The absent are always in the wrong.
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- The watched chicken never lays.
(Congolese Proverb)
- The white man never forgets Europe.
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- War ends nothing.
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- A real family eats the same cornmeal.
(Congolese Proverb)
- Who sits down is a cripple.
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- A pretty basket does not prevent worries.
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- Without war there can be no peace.
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- A single bracelet does not jingle.
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- Children are the reward of life.
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- Death does not sound a trumpet.
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- Drink beer, think beer.
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- Friendship does not need pepper to cry.
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- Little by little grow the bananas.
(Congolese Proverb)
- Lovers do not hide their nakedness.
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- Mothers-in-law are hard of hearing.
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- One day of hunger is not starvation.
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- Sleep is the cousin of death.
(Congolese Proverb)
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