Swahili Proverbs (424 Proverbs)
- He who is after two things at the same time, one will surely escape him.
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- He who spekes ill of someone close to you in your presence sends you to tell him so.
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- If you are absent you lose your share.
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- If you want to eat pig, choose one which is fat.
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- One who always depends on his brother will die poor.
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- Patience is the key to tranquility.
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- Stretch your legs the length of your bed.
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- The child of lion is a lion.
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- The juice of an Immature coconut Is not like the real coconut juice.
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- The tongue hurts more than the teeth.
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- To stumble is not falling down but it is to go forward.
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- What the heart desires is medicine to it.
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- When your Companion is being shaved, put water.
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- With many captains, the ship does not sail properly.
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- A bad job is not as wothless as a good game.
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- A dying ear does not feel the medicine.
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- A hunter is not afraid of thorns.
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- A pit of the tongue cannot be covered up by the hand.
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- A tailor does not select his cloth.
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- After hardship comes relief.
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- Are you a Jeta, you do not move?.
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- Courage is not the same as fighting someone stronger than you.
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- Eating is sweet, digging is weariness.
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- Gratitude of a donkey is a kick.
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- He who digs a pit will fall into it himself.
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- He who is carried on the back must cling on.
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- He who trusts in God lacks nothing.
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- If you are astonished at Moses' deeds, you will be more astonished at Pharaoh's. Not-Moses declared himself to he a prophet, but Pharaoh declared himself to be God.
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- It is better for the eyes to die than the heart.
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- One who curses someone in public, brings it on himself in private.
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- Pemba does not run away fro a small shower.
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- Take one, not that you may return with ten.
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- The child who grows up with you is your fellow.
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- The lion which moves silently is the one that eats meat.
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- The very thing you do not want, that is what pleases god.
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- Today is today who says tommorrow is a liar.
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- When a bull gets his leg broken, he is sure to go back to his yard.
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- Where it slopes down is where it slopes up.
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- Words alone wont break bones.
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- A big heart is better than a big brain.
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- A fisheman knows where to look for an octopus.
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- A husband of a mother is a father.
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- A poor man does not pick up things if does they say he stole them.
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- A thief finds another one.
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- Along silence followed by mighty noise.
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- Arrogance is not gentlemanly.
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- Death has its advantages too ie it benifits those who inherit.
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- Effort will not counter faith.
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- Great wit drives away wisdom.
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- He who dips his finger into honey does not dip it once.
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- He who is expled from home has no where to go.
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- He who who flings a stone amid a crowd, does not know the it hits.
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- If you are offered a span, do not take a couple of yards.
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- It is better to build bridges than walls.
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- One who gives birth cannot avoid defilement.
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- Pleasent words will draw the snake from its hole.
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- Talk of the devil, and you'll hear the rustle of his wings.
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- The corpse-washer is washed.
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- The maker of wooden spoons saves his hand from fire.
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- The village cock does not crow in town.
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- Too many captains the ship rolls.
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- When a child cries for a razor give it him.
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- Where there are experts there will be no lack ot learners.
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- Work the clay while it is still wet.
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- A bird that imitates others does not get used to a place.
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- A flag follows the direction of the wind.
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- A lazy person with a nephwe does not eat dry rice.
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- A poor man has no contempt.
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- A thief is a rogue but the one who repays is a gentleman.
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- An aimless wanderer wears away his legs.
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- As you bring up a child, so he will be.
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- Desire first, death afterwards.
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- Every bird flies with its own wings.
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- Had you known what bees eat, you would not have tasted the honey.
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- He who does not admit defeat is not a sportsman.
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- He who is used to strangle, cannot slaughter.
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- Hearing is not seeing.
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- If you do not fill up a crack, you will have to build a wall.
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- It is better to lose your eyes than to lose your heart.
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- One who has been bitten by a snake, when he sees grass he he gets afraid.
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