A remote stick does not kill a snake.

More Swahili Proverbs

• 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.
• If you don’t seal a crack, you will build wall.
• There are three things which if one does not know, one cannot live long in the world: what is too much for one, what is too little for one, and what is just right for one.
• A distant fire does not burn. Haste has no blessing. Delay so that you may arrive.
• The route of a liar is short.
• Wait at the bottom, for the one who is up.
• Haste does not result in prosperity.
• A fly does not mind dying in coconut cream.
• The remedy for fire is fire.
• A letter from the heart can be read on the face.
• If the hours are long enough and the pay is short enough, someone will say it’s women’s work.
• A drowning person does not stop thrashing around.
• Don’t provoke bees.
• Habit is a skin.
• Don’t insult midwives as long as you are still able to give birth.
• Donating is only a matter of willingness and not wealth.
• Unity is strength, disunity is weakness.
• Patience attracts success.
• Abuses are the result of seeing one another too often.
• A person is people.
• Where there is a will, there is a way.
• How come that the pepper which you are not eating is too hot for you?
• How come that the pepper which you are not eating is too hot for you?
• The child of a snake is a snake.
• Haste has no blessing.