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.