Bantu Proverbs - page 3

Even if you are cunning, you will not tie water up in a bale of grass. (Bantu Proverb)
It is the grass that knows where the snake goes. View proverb
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Just one by one white hairs have come, and thus have they grown. View proverb
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Mr. Not-present was the brave man. View proverb
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One doesn't follow a wild beast into its lair. View proverb
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People get to know one another when traveling. View proverb
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Respect a little child, and let it respect you. View proverb
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When there is on a red-hot hoe, it is not grasped. View proverb
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Where there is a friend, one does not have to call, he will come of his own accord. View proverb
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Chieftanship is not infectious. View proverb
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Cunning comes to an end, what remains is folly. (Bantu Proverb)
The insolence of shortness is to stretch itself big. View proverb
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The judge also dies. View proverb
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Mother carry me, and I tomorrow will carry you. View proverb
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Adjoining houses always burn. View proverb
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Even if we eat, earth will eventually enter our mouth. View proverb
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Your friend, one doesn't stare at his forehead, one stares at his stomach. View proverb
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Even if your bee-hive has no honey in it, you shouldn't break it up. View proverb
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He was entrapped by the evening, it has cost him his marriage. View proverb
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Hunger has no friend. View proverb
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There is no return, worse luck; for could I return, I would foresee what has come into the country. (Bantu Proverb)
Earth is like a prison: we all go in through the same door, but we stay in different cells. View proverb
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The bitter heart eats its owner. View proverb
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