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.

More Swahili Proverbs

• 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.
• 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.