Swahili Tales/Proverbs
PROVERBS.
Hurrying, hurrying, has no blessing.
The tongue has no bone.
The destroyer of the country is a child of the country; a stranger does not weigh two hundred-weight.
A new thing is good, though it be a sore place.
Running on a roof ends at the edge of it.
Is not poor work good play?
Wonder not, children of men, at the things that are in this world.
If the Pleiades rise in sun, they set in rain; if they rise in rain, they set in sun.
If a dish is covered, what is in it is hidden.
There is no grief without a companion.
Who will dance to a lion's roaring? Patience is the key of consolation.
Continually, continually, the cord cuts the stone.
When two elephants struggle it is the grass that suffers.
Use your clay while it is wet.
He that is drunk with wine gets sober, he that is drunk with wealth does not.
What bites is in your own clothes.
Loud lamentations are not becoming in mourning.
A sand-fly can get through anything.
He has fallen into a well.