Kikuyu Proverbs (115 Proverbs)
- Travelling is learning.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- Travelling is seeing.
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- Travelling teaches men their way.
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- Two guests have no welcome.
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- Two guests love a different song.
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- Two smells of cooking meat break the hyena's legs.
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- Two waterfalls do not hear each other.
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- Two wives are two pots full of poison.
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- We speak byh proverb: he who is intelligent will understand.
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- When an elephant combats, it is the grass that suffers.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- When there is shortage of figs, birds eat the fruits of the 'mugumo'.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- Wind makes more noise among the trees.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- Wives and oxen have no friends.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- Women have no upright words, but only crooked ones.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- You cannot make an appointment with death.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- A little, contemptible path is sometimes the one that leads you to the highway.
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- Every case begins from the stomach.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- Indulgence breeds regret.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- People count the refusals, do not count the gifts.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- The fact that you have gone near the battle-field does not mean that you fought.
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- The river is crossed where it is shallow.
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- To wait is not to tremble.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- A long lawsuit breeds poverty.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- Every feast has ists guest of honour.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- It is bad to get old, for one goes to bed grumbling.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- People slander somebody even if they do not despise him.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- The fear keeps your house poor.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- The song of a stranger-woman is answered after she has gone.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- A man changing his abode is like a woman marrying.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- Goats fall that take hold of lichens.
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- It is bad to stay at home.
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- People who have not secret agreement are beaten by a single club.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- The food found Wacu in the field.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- The widow's sons have not tears.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- A market can be spoilt by one woman.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- Having rain clouds is not the same as having rain..
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- It is not the mother's will to have a bad offspring.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- Rich people sometimes eat badfood.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- The fool takes many people with him.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- The woman who gives birth to a child is like the banana tree that breaks under the weight of its fruit.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- A piece of land is not a little thing.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- He is a man that looks after maney as 'njuu' looks after locusts.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- Live men do not lack work.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- Riches and poverty do not leave each other.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- The forest of an unpleasant person is the one that has trees.
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- The woman whose sons have died is richer than a barren woman.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- A river drowns the one who can swim.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- He who adorns himself knows to what sort of dance he is going.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- Lying is the thief's stronghold.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- She who ignores advice does not resist when being prepared for burial.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- The 'gicegu' of many men is not good.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- Thieves conceal themselves in the night not in the day.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- A secret agreement enabled people to kill Watatua.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- He who does not know the road delays also one that knows it.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- Man counts what he has refused, not what he has given.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- Some hope for rain even though they have not prepared their fields.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- The grove of the hear is not laid open.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- To be laughed at by men is not to be wept by hyenas.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- Beggars have no worries.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- He who does not know, knows after being told.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- Me do not know hard firewood, but only lops people put aside hard tasks and devote themselves only to easy ones.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- Talking something over is better than leaving it pending.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- The Kikuyu know how to conceal their quiver, but do not know how to conceal their secrets.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- To be laughed at is not to be pitied.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- Birds agree when flying down, but do not agree when flying up.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- He who seeks his goat with the man who ate it, is certain not to find it.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- Men are equal whe they are going and walking.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- Ten helpless people were surpassed by a single strong person.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- The land enriches not people who clear it, but people who come.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- To be praised is to be ruined.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- Bought things do not fill the granary.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- He who spends his time adorning himself knows he is going to a dance.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- Men do not know liberality.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- That of circumcision is a hard appointment.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- The lawsuit of a fool keeps the court all day.
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- To be slim does not mean having been pared.
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- By staying always in the same place one gets lice.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- Home affairs are not to be carried on in the public squuare.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- Men have got quills.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
- The antelope detests the one who announces its whereabouts more than the one who sees it.
(Kikuyu Proverb)
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