Habit is a skin.

More Swahili Proverbs

• 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.
• 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.