Bantu Proverbs - page 2

We celebrated at the wax door, and all the time the honeycomb was empty within. (Bantu Proverb)
What is not bitter is good to eat. View proverb
Bantu Proverb
A stick one bends while it is still green. View proverb
Bantu Proverb
What makes the drum pleasing is the song. View proverb
Bantu Proverb
What nature gives us is not refused. View proverb
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What one won't eat by itself, one will eat when mixed with other food. View proverb
Bantu Proverb
Words in conversation are like beans, one breaks them off where they are ripe. View proverb
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Days are many, what is one is life. View proverb
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The cabin of a loved one is never too far away. View proverb
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Days cannot be tied in a bundle. View proverb
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Young man, countries practice witchcraft on one another. (Bantu Proverb)
A bone does not bring itself, it is people that bring it. View proverb
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A child one does not instruct on return, one instructs him when going. View proverb
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The earth is a beehive; we all enter by the same door but live in different cells. View proverb
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Who suffers from diarrhea, is not afraid of the dark. View proverb
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Whenever I work hard for other people, I always sleep on an empty stomach. View proverb
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Away from home the girl picks forbidden fruit. View proverb
Bantu Proverb
A woman's clothes are the price her husband pays for peace. View proverb
Bantu Proverb
There are forty kinds of lunacy, but only one kind of common sense. View proverb
Bantu Proverb
The power of the crocodile is in the water. View proverb
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The horizon will not disappear as you run towards it. (Bantu Proverb)
Every beast roars in its own den. View proverb
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The road doesn't tell the traveler what lies ahead. View proverb
Bantu Proverb
Visitors' footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick. View proverb
Bantu Proverb
Dance, father, people's eyes don't eat, they just stare. View proverb
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