Swahili Proverbs (424 Proverbs)
- An empty hand is not licked.
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- Better to stumble with toe than toungue.
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- Do not compete with Kari, Kari comes from God.
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- Eyes have no screens, they see all that is within view.
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- He wanders around by day a lot, learns a lot.
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- He who eats bitter things gets sweet things too.
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- He who praises rain has been rained on.
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- I have anointed you with kohl, do you, in return, anoint me with pepper?.
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- If you find your own house is on fire, you may be sure that your neighbour's house is burning much more fiercely.
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- Nobleness is not noble ancestry.
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- One who rides two horses at once will split asunder.
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- Scabics are given to him who has no fingernails.
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- The beareved begins the wailing latter others join.
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- The drunkard's money is being consumed by palm-wine trapper.
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- The prayer of the chicken hawk does not get him the chicken.
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- They is no incence for something rotting.
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- War has no eyes.
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- when the cat goes away, mice reign.
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- Where there are plenty of trees there are no builders.
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- You dont throw stones at an approching craclin noise in the bush wait and see what is it first.
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- A chick is not taught how to scratch up the ground.
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- A goshawk is an egg child, if sleeps hungry its his own fault.
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- A nice day, a gift for a street peddlar.
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- A rotten coconut in a heap spoils the wholesome ones.
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- A tree of your height cannot shade you.
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- An evil Indian but his bussiness is good.
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- Big houses conceal a lot.
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- Do not forget what it is to be a sailor because of being a captain yourself.
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- Fire does not beget fire in the end it begets ashes.
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- He who asks for salt does so for his own cooking pot.
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- He who eats with you will not die with you except he who was born with you.
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- He who renounces his ancestrey is like a slave.
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- I shall not suffer illness while doctors abound.
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- If you love other people's children, you will love your own even more.
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- Not all that have claws are lions.
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- One who selects his hoe is not real farmer.
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- Serve even an unbeliever to attain your own ends.
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- The begining is bud the end is coconut.
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- The ear does not surpass the head.
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- The process of eating is not taught to a child.
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- They is no secret between two people.
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- Water flows down the valley does not climb the hill.
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- When the head of the family dies, that family breaks up.
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- Where there is finery, there lies the snare.
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- You may climb a thorn tree, and be unable to come down.
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- A connoisseur never comes to the end of desire.
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- A guine- fowl not lay eggs on strange places.
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- A noisy drumming does not last long.
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- A satisfied person does not know the hungry man.
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- A vessel running agroud has no captain.
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- An infidel who does you good turn is not like a Muslim who does not.
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- Blessings are better than wealth.
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- Do not neglect the undoing for the setting.
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- Follow bees and you will get honey.
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- He who becomes blind in his old age does not lose his way.
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- He who enjoys the first fruit of a country is son of that country.
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- He who requires what is under the bed must bend for it.
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- ie One eye of a master sees more than four of a servent.
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- If you see amber, ambergis is behind.
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- Old droppings do not stink.
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- One who stores half grown fruit eats it rotten.
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- Shadow of a stick canot protect one from the sun.
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- The begining of a dance is lele.
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- The eater of a goat pays back a cow.
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- The real eater is todays eater not yesterdays.
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- Things dont just happen by accidents.
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- water follows current.
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- When tide is high, it ebbs.
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- Where there trees, there are no builders.
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- You will not necessarily get what you desire, you will get what is appointed you.
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- A cow is not oppressed by its own hump.
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- A handfull of water can not be grasped.
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- A noisy person is harmless.
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- A sick person is not asked for porridje.
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- A warning to the wise is a blessing, to the fool an insult.
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- An ivory tooth is not cure for the lost tooth.
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- Borrowing is like a wedding, repaying is like mourning.
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- Do not pretend to be a white fowl.
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- For a fly to die on an ulcer is not bad.
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- He who boasts of his ancestry unduly will bring plenty of trouble upon himself.
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