Kenyan Proverbs (90 Proverbs)
- Many births mean many burials.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- One does not slaughter a calf before its mother's eyes.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- One finger alone cannot kill even a louse.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- The day before yesterday and yesterday are not the same as today.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- The enemy you know is better than the one you do not know.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- A boy isn't sent to collect the honey.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- The important things are left in the locker.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- A heavy burden does not kill on the day it is carried.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- There is no cure that does not cost.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- A man who continually laments is not heeded.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- Those who get to the river early drink the cleanest water.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- A man's actions are more important than his ancestry.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- Treat the earth well. It was not given to you by your parents. It is loaned to you by your children.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- Crawling on hands and knees has never prevented anyone from walking upright.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- Treat the world well. It was not given to you by your parents. It was willed to you by your children.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- He who is unable to dance blames it in the stony yard.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- Try this bracelet: if it fits you wear it; but if it hurts you, throw it away no matter how shiny.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- He who is unable to dance says that the yard is stony.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- He who receives a gift does not measure.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- Home affairs are not talked about on the public square.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- How gently glides the married life away, When she who rules still seems but to obey.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- Hurry hurry has no blessings.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- What's too hard for a man must be worth looking into.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- It is the duty of children to wait on elders, and not the elders on children.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- Affairs of the home should not be discussed in the public square.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- We should talk while we are still alive.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- If you receive a gift don't measure it.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- A white dog does not bite another white dog.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- We should put out fire while it is still small.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- If one is roasting two potatoes, one of them is bound to get charred.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- A person changing his clothing always hides while changing.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- We have not inherited this land from our ancestors; rather we have borrowed it from our children.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- If a dead tree falls, it carries with it a live one.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- A flea can trouble a lion more than the lion can harm a flea.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- Try this bracelet: if it fits you wear it; but if it hurts you, throw it away no matter how much it sparkles.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- Hearts do not meet one another like roads.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- A donkey always says thank you with a kick.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- There is no phrase that doesn't have a double meaning.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- There is no cure that does not have its price.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- He who does not know one thing knows another
(Kenyan Proverb)
- The water of the river flows on without waiting for the thirsty man.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- Having a good discussion is like having riches.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- The one chased away with a club comes back, but the one chased away with kihooto reason does not.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- Even a friend can not rescue one from old age.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- Talking to one another is loving one another.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- Don't count what they get -- they count what they don't get.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- One finger alone cannot even kill a louse.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- Do not slaughter a calf before its mother's eyes.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- Once you have been tossed by a buffalo, a black ox looks like a buffalo.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- Do not say the first thing that comes to your mind.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- You may laugh at a friend's roof; don't laugh at his sleeping accommodation.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- Nobody gathers firewood to roast a thin goat.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- Do not follow a person who is running a way.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- Who does not know one thing knows another.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- No attention is paid to him who is always complaining.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- Because a man has injured your goat, do not go out and kill his bull.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- When you take a knife away from a child, give him a piece of wood instead.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- Never let a hyena know how well you can bite.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- At the harvest you know how good the millet is.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- When the figs are ripe all the birds want to eat.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- Just because he harmed your goat, do not go out and kill his bull.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- All cassavahs have the same skins but not all taste the same.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- A slave has no choice.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- Thunder is not yet rain.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- Absence makes the heart forget.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- To be praised is to be lost.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- After a foolish deed comes remorse.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- Virtue is better than wealth.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- Bad dancing does not brake an engagement.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- Water can not be forced uphill.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- Blind belief is dangerous.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- We add wisdom to knowledge.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- Each has his own way of moving.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- You can not take away someone's luck.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- He who refuses to obey cannot command.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- Hurrying has no blessing.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- Nobody walks with another man's gait.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- Old age devours your youth.
(Kenyan Proverb)
- Only believe a woman one day later.
(Kenyan Proverb)
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