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.