Zambian Proverbs (35 Proverbs)
- A tender bamboo cannot be eagerly desired for building.
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- You can trust your brother, your father, your mother, but never your wife.
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- A wild dog is best eaten when clubbed to death.
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- You have to look after wealth, but knowledge looks after you.
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- A woman without teeth shall be left to the lions.
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- Your feet will take you away from home, but your stomach will always bring you back.
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- Beat your wife regularly; if you don't know why, she will.
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- Do not look at a visitor's face but at his stomach.
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- He who listened to the woman suffered famine at harvest time.
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- I am because we are; we are because I am.
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- If you are ugly, learn how to dance.
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- If you have no teeth, do not break the clay cooking pot.
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- Jump over a log but not over your neighbor's word.
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- The king lives way up where the stench of the poor cannot reach him.
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- A belching toad portends rain.
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- The shark who has eaten cannot swim with the shark that is hungry.
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- A fat woman warms even the coldest the night.
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- Things that are stolen will really never make you rich.
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- A man with a cross eye shall be put to the torch.
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- To get rid of anger, first weed out the bitter roots.
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- A monkey that pilfers from a widow's larder must not be admonished.
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- To give is to put.
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- A strong bull is seen by it's scars.
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- When you run alone, you run fast. When you run together, you run far.
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- He who paddles two canoes, sinks.
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- Where God cooks, there is no smoke.
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- You learn a lot about a man by his behavior when hungry.
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- When your luck deserts you, even cold food burns.
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- When you show the moon to a child, it sees only your finger.
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- Treat the days well and they will treat you well.
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- One who enters a forest does not listen to the breaking of the twigs in the brush.
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- Many are the eyes of the person whose spouse commits adultery.
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- It is inevitable that two thighs will rub against each other.
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- He who has a fever is not shown to the fire.
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- A riddle made by God has no solution.
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