Swahili

Education has no ending.
Aiming isn’t hitting.
Delay so that you may arrive.
A single finger does not break a louse.
Intelligence is an asset.
If water has been spilt, it cannot be scooped up.
Don’t plant a seed in the sea.
If you destroy a bridge, be sure you can swim.
If you don’t seal a crack, you will build wall.
The route of a liar is short.
A fly does not mind dying in coconut cream.
If the hours are long enough and the pay is short enough, someone will say it’s women’s work.
Habit is a skin.
Unity is strength, disunity is weakness.
A person is people.
How come that the pepper which you are not eating is too hot for you?
When the cat has gone away, the mice prevail.
A remote stick does not kill a snake.
Anger brings damage.
Blood is heavier than water.
Where smoke is being generated, there is a fire.
He who isn’t around, his share isn’t around either .
Two crocodiles cannot agree.
If the hyena eats the sick man, he will eat the whole one.
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.
Wait at the bottom, for the one who is up.
The remedy for fire is fire.
A drowning person does not stop thrashing around.
Don’t insult midwives as long as you are still able to give birth.
Patience attracts success.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
The child of a snake is a snake.
Bribery is the enemy of justice.
To a physician a sick man is a garden.
If you want to eat a pig, eat a fat one.
If a child cries for a razor-blade, give it to him.
Nine is near ten.
Little by little fills up the measure.
A spear is only against a pig; against a human being it is painful.
Give way to the strong one.
A distant fire does not burn. Haste has no blessing. Delay so that you may arrive.
Haste does not result in prosperity.
A letter from the heart can be read on the face.
Don’t provoke bees.
Donating is only a matter of willingness and not wealth.
Abuses are the result of seeing one another too often.
How come that the pepper which you are not eating is too hot for you?
Haste has no blessing.
Death is blind.
Many cooks spoil the sauce.
He who sows haphazardly, eats haphazardly.