Friday, October 7, 2022
Malawian Proverbs (59 Proverbs)
- Don't think there are no crocodiles just because the water's calm.
(Malawian Proverb)
- If you have, give; if you need, seek.
(Malawian Proverb)
- You cannot pick up a pebble with one finger.
(Malawian Proverb)
- When the curry is tasty, the rice is hard.
(Malawian Proverb)
- Kick away the ladder and your feet are left dangling.
(Malawian Proverb)
- Blow your horn in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cockerels; bleat in a flock of goats.
(Malawian Proverb)
- When it's warm the pea loses its pod.
(Malawian Proverb)
- Just as a bamboo cane forms a round jet of water, so taking counsel together makes men of one mind.
(Malawian Proverb)
- As if it weren't bad enough to fall, the ladder lands on top of you.
(Malawian Proverb)
- When a dead tree falls, the woodpeckers profit from his death.
(Malawian Proverb)
- It is the fate of the coconut husk to float, for the stone to sink.
(Malawian Proverb)
- As a child, is a man wrapped in his mother's womb; as an adult, in tradition; comes death, and he is wrapped in earth.
(Malawian Proverb)
- We all will die, but our tombs will differ.
(Malawian Proverb)
- If you dip your arm into the picklepot let it be up to the elbow.
(Malawian Proverb)
- An upstart is a sparrow eager to marry a hornbill.
(Malawian Proverb)
- Though near shore, you're still in the ocean.
(Malawian Proverb)
- If you are going to bathe, get thoroughly wet.
(Malawian Proverb)
- A piece of incense may be as large as the knee, but unless burned emits no fragrance.
(Malawian Proverb)
- Those who are at one regarding food are at one in life.
(Malawian Proverb)
- However big the whale may be, the tiny harpoon can rob him of life.
(Malawian Proverb)
- A diplomat should be yielding and supple as a creeper that can be bent but not broken.
(Malawian Proverb)
- The widow is just as fiery as the horse that threw her.
(Malawian Proverb)
- He can see a louse as far away as China but is not aware of an elephant on his nose.
(Malawian Proverb)
- A deer tethered with a golden chain can escape to the forest to eat grass.
(Malawian Proverb)
- The most fragrant of flowers are eaten by the green-fly.
(Malawian Proverb)
- Gold is a debt we can repay, but kindness not till our dying day.
(Malawian Proverb)
- The day will come when cats have horns and Dutchmen will be circumcised.
(Malawian Proverb)
- Fear to let fall a drop, will always make you spill a lot.
(Malawian Proverb)
- The cradle is rocked but the baby is pinched.
(Malawian Proverb)
- Every man is a prince in his own bed.
(Malawian Proverb)
- The body pays for a slip of the foot, and gold pays for a slip of the tongue.
(Malawian Proverb)
- Don't think back on someone whose name you forgot, he is probably someone else by now.
(Malawian Proverb)
- The betrothed of good is evil; the betrothed of life is death; the betrothed of love is divorce.
(Malawian Proverb)
- Don't teach the tiger cub to eat meat.
(Malawian Proverb)
- You can measure the depth of the sea but what about a man's heart?
(Malawian Proverb)
- One muddy buffalo makes the whole herd dirty.
(Malawian Proverb)
- Don't dirty the place where you have eaten.
(Malawian Proverb)
- Where there is sea there will always be pirates.
(Malawian Proverb)
- One little arrow does not kill a serpent.
(Malawian Proverb)
- Do not be like the mosquito that bites the owner of the house.
(Malawian Proverb)
- When you are crossing over a river you might be eaten by crocodiles, but don't let yourself get bitten by the little fish.
(Malawian Proverb)
- One day of rain far surpasses a whole year of drought.
(Malawian Proverb)
- Crime leaves a trail like a water beetle; like a snail, it leaves its silver track; like a horse-mango, it leaves its smell.
(Malawian Proverb)
- When the sky falls down, the earth shall melt.
(Malawian Proverb)
- Leave her now and then if you would really love your wife.
(Malawian Proverb)
- Buffaloes are held by ropes, man by his words.
(Malawian Proverb)
- Rocks need no protection from the rain.
(Malawian Proverb)
- The body is killed by the mouth.
(Malawian Proverb)
- The less soup, the more spoons.
(Malawian Proverb)
- The proportion of things thrill the eye.
(Malawian Proverb)
- The smallest pepper is hottest.
(Malawian Proverb)
- The teeth sometimes bite the tongue.
(Malawian Proverb)
- Where there is sugar, there are mice.
(Malawian Proverb)
- Crabs teach their offspring to walk straight.
(Malawian Proverb)
- Don't use an axe to do embroidery.
(Malawian Proverb)
- Every joy will follow in grief's footsteps.
(Malawian Proverb)
- Fish don't get caught in deep water.
(Malawian Proverb)
- Go away and the conversation changes.
(Malawian Proverb)
- Low is the mountain, high the expectations.
(Malawian Proverb)
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