Swahili Proverbs

One follows bees will never fail to get honey.

One who hides private parts wont get a child.

The lion which moves silently is the one that eats meat.

He who riducules a deformed person becomes deformed himself.

You may climb a thorn tree, and be unable to come down.

A fly does not mind dying in coconut cream.

A hen's kick does not hurt her chick.

Are you a Jeta, you do not move?

The ear does not surpass the head.

The Iabour of childbirth is known to the mother.

One who keeps silent, endures.

Gratitude of a donkey is a kick.

Haste does not result in prosperity.

He who earns calamity, eats it with his family.

A husband of a mother is a father.

Effort will not counter faith.

One who gives birth cannot avoid defilement.

Kiss the hand you can not cut.

Water in a coconut shell is like an ocean to an ant.

I am a mud hut, I can not stand shocks.

A flag follows the direction of the wind.

Too many captains the ship rolls.

A well-worn coir-rope is better than a new rope made from raffia.

You dont take viengeance on silliness.

Put a riddle to a fool a clever person will solve it.

He who desires all, misses all.

A bird that imitates others does not get used to a place.

A distant fire does not burn.

Do not forget what it is to be a sailor because of being a captain yourself.

The gratitude that bees receive is the smoke that people use to expel them and get at their honey.

An obstinete child does not suffer save on the day of festival.

The begining is bud the end is coconut.

To a physician a sick man is a garden.

Your companion's body is beside.

The prayer of the chicken hawk does not get him the chicken.

The creaking of the door deprives me of no sleep.

The sick man is the garden of the physicians.

A person scratches himself where his hand can reach.

A log can not move save by the help of rollers.

Two bulls do not live in the same shade.

If you want beauty, you must be injured.

The skin of yesteday's sugarcane is a havest to an ant.

A good place you don't go to is a good place: if you go too often, it isn't a good place any longer.

He who is expled from home has no where to go.