If a child cries for a razor-blade, give it to him.
More Swahili Proverbs
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?