Friday, October 7, 2022
Swahili Proverbs (424 Proverbs)
- A boat doesn't go forward if each one is rowing their own way.
(Swahili Proverb)
- A good name shines in the dark.
(Swahili Proverb)
- A messenger is not killed.
(Swahili Proverb)
- A potter eats from a potsherd.
(Swahili Proverb)
- A thing that is firmly fixed cannot be dislodged except with much trouble.
(Swahili Proverb)
- An axe with rio handle does not split firewood.
(Swahili Proverb)
- Asking questions is not silly.
(Swahili Proverb)
- Do me a favour during a rainy season and I shall do the same to you during the dry season.
(Swahili Proverb)
- Every vessel has its own waves.
(Swahili Proverb)
- Have you changed into a cuttle-fish, you heap live embers on yourself?.
(Swahili Proverb)
- He who earns calamity, eats it with his family.
(Swahili Proverb)
- He who likes to eat cows hump will not fail to grow fat.
(Swahili Proverb)
- How can you be burnt by chilies which you have not eaten?.
(Swahili Proverb)
- If you dont fill a crack, you will build a wall.
(Swahili Proverb)
- Mouth is the home of words.
(Swahili Proverb)
- One who has little relish must eat sparingly.
(Swahili Proverb)
- Regrets are like a child, They come some considerable time after event.
(Swahili Proverb)
- That which is written by God is what is.
(Swahili Proverb)
- The day you go naked, is the day you will meet your father.
(Swahili Proverb)
- The one who is caught with the skin is the thief.
(Swahili Proverb)
- The way of a liar is short.
(Swahili Proverb)
- Usage is like law.
(Swahili Proverb)
- When a poor man gets something he boasts of his new wealth.
(Swahili Proverb)
- Where there are many there is much.
(Swahili Proverb)
- You cannot know the defects of a house you have not slept in.
(Swahili Proverb)
- A brother is a cooking pot, and a neighbour is a cooking pot lid.
(Swahili Proverb)
- A good place you don't go to is a good place: if you go too often, it isn't a good place any longer.
(Swahili Proverb)
- A mud hut cannot withstand great shocks.
(Swahili Proverb)
- A regular path has no signpost.
(Swahili Proverb)
- A tongue has no bone.
(Swahili Proverb)
- An ear dots not go to bed hungry.
(Swahili Proverb)
- Better an intelligent enemy than a stupid friend.
(Swahili Proverb)
- Do not abuse midwives while child-bearing continues.
(Swahili Proverb)
- Every who streches a skin on a drum, pulls the skin own his own side.
(Swahili Proverb)
- He laughs at scar who has received no wound.
(Swahili Proverb)
- He who earns his living in the sun, eats in the shade.
(Swahili Proverb)
- He who nurses vegeance is not called wise.
(Swahili Proverb)
- I am a mud hut, I can not stand shocks.
(Swahili Proverb)
- If you don't know death look at the grave.
(Swahili Proverb)
- Never give up your own old mat for a better prayer mat which you see passing.
(Swahili Proverb)
- One who hides private parts wont get a child.
(Swahili Proverb)
- Rice is all one but they are many ways of cooking it.
(Swahili Proverb)
- The ape does not see his own backside, he Sees his companion's.
(Swahili Proverb)
- The death of not a relative is a wedding.Compared to a death of a relative.
(Swahili Proverb)
- The patient eat ripe.
(Swahili Proverb)
- There is weeping when separated, there is quarreling when together.
(Swahili Proverb)
- Voluntary is better than force.
(Swahili Proverb)
- When an oxhorn of a news man is sounded, something is wrong.
(Swahili Proverb)
- Where there are many, nothing goes wrong.
(Swahili Proverb)
- You canot know the bugs of a bed that you have not lain on.
(Swahili Proverb)
- A cat belonging to the house is not chased away.
(Swahili Proverb)
- A good purpose is like a doctor and evil purpose corrupts.
(Swahili Proverb)
- A new fowl always has string around its legs.
(Swahili Proverb)
- A reserve will not decay.
(Swahili Proverb)
- A traveller does not make a mess where he had made a camp as he might one day come back.
(Swahili Proverb)
- An elephant hunter usually gets killed by an elephant.
(Swahili Proverb)
- Better delay and get there.
(Swahili Proverb)
- Do not abuse palm-wine tappers while drunkness persists.
(Swahili Proverb)
- Everyone should contribute when collection is made.
(Swahili Proverb)
- He that does not fear a bull must be a bull himself.
(Swahili Proverb)
- He who eats another mans food will have his own food eaten by others.
(Swahili Proverb)
- He who plays with mud will get splashed.
(Swahili Proverb)
- I ate honey in my childhood, and its sweetness is still in my tooth.
(Swahili Proverb)
- If you find the river flooded, wait.
(Swahili Proverb)
- Nine is near ten.
(Swahili Proverb)
- One who keeps silent, endures.
(Swahili Proverb)
- Running on the roof finishes at the edge.
(Swahili Proverb)
- The area covered by your life is not as important as what you can build on it.
(Swahili Proverb)
- The destroyer of a country is a citizen of that country.
(Swahili Proverb)
- The poison for a word is a word.
(Swahili Proverb)
- They is no distance that has no end.
(Swahili Proverb)
- Wait a minute! wait a minute! harms the stomach.
(Swahili Proverb)
- When brothers quarrel, take a hoe and go and dig; and when they make it up, take a basket and patter the crop.
(Swahili Proverb)
- Where there are old people, nothing goes wrong.
(Swahili Proverb)
- You dont take viengeance on silliness.
(Swahili Proverb)
- A cat can never he made to lie on its back.
(Swahili Proverb)
- A good thing sells it self a bad one advertises it self.
(Swahili Proverb)
- A new thing is a souce of joy even if is sore.
(Swahili Proverb)
- A rope parts where it is thinnest.
(Swahili Proverb)
- A traveller is poor, even though he being a ruler.
(Swahili Proverb)
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