More Swahili Proverbs
- 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.
- 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.