Xhosa Proverbs (54 Proverbs)
- I, the adhesive grass, will stick fast to you.
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- The crab has stuck fast between the stones at the entrance of its hole.
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- We shall hear, we are on the side towards which the wind blows.
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- If we blink the eyes in order not to see a wicked person, how shall we be able to see a good person?
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- The foot has no nose.
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- You are creeping on your knees to the fireplace.
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- It dies and rises like the moon.
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- The land is dead.
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- You are lighting a fire in the wind.
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- It has stuck fast by one of the front legs.
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- The mist and the sun are together.
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- You disturb monkeys on their way to drink.
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- A brand burns him who stirs it up.
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- It is a cob stripped of maize in an ashpit.
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- The people who rescue and kill.
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- You drink out of the old cup.
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- A dog of the wind.
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- It is not every one who is a son of Gaika.
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- The shield turned the wrong way.
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- You have cast away your own for that which you are not sure of.
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- A person who will not take advice gets knowledge when trouble overtakes him.
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- It is the foot of a baboon.
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- The sun never sets without fresh news.
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- You have exposed yourself.
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- A spy for both.
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- It is the seed of the umya.
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- The walls have come into collision.
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- You will find out what Hili of the Amambalu experienced.
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- Bakuba is far away, no person ever reached it.
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- Like the marriage feast of Mapassa.
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- The wonderful and the impossible have come into collision.
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- You will prefer roasted meat.
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- Guluwe's two of yesterday.
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- Misfortune of soup made of shanks and feet.
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- There is no beast that does not roar in its den.
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- You will shed tears with one eye like a monkey.
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- He has drunk the juice of the flower of the wild aloe.
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- No partridge scratches the ground in search of food for another.
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- There is no wormwood that comes into flower and does not wither.
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- He has fastened a dog to a shrub.
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- One does not become great by claiming greatness.
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- They are people of experience who do not sleep at a strange place.
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- He has gone in pursuit of the birds of the sea.
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- One fly does not provide for another.
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- They have slaughtered at Kukwane where much meat is obtainable.
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- He is a buck of an endless forest.
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- One who eats the remains of a meal without first obtaining permission.
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- They prevent us from getting red clay from the pit, and they do not use it.
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- He is ripe inside, like a water-melon.
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- The baldness of a head begins at the temples.
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- Throats are all alike in swallowing
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- I rejoice that Kolomba's mother is dead.
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- The coming of Nkele.
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- To skin a mouse.
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