A person is people.

More Swahili Proverbs

• Education has no ending.
• When the cat has gone away, the mice prevail.
• Bribery is the enemy of justice.
• Death is blind.
• Aiming isn’t hitting.
• A remote stick does not kill a snake.
• To a physician a sick man is a garden.
• Many cooks spoil the sauce.
• Delay so that you may arrive.
• Anger brings damage.
• If you want to eat a pig, eat a fat one.
• He who sows haphazardly, eats haphazardly.
• A single finger does not break a louse.
• Blood is heavier than water.
• If a child cries for a razor-blade, give it to him.
• Intelligence is an asset.
• Where smoke is being generated, there is a fire.
• Nine is near ten.
• If water has been spilt, it cannot be scooped up.
• He who isn’t around, his share isn’t around either .
• Little by little fills up the measure.
• Don’t plant a seed in the sea.
• Two crocodiles cannot agree.
• A spear is only against a pig; against a human being it is painful.
• If you destroy a bridge, be sure you can swim.
• If the hyena eats the sick man, he will eat the whole one.
• Give way to the strong one.