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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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