More Swahili Proverbs
- 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.
- 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.