It is not the owner, trampling his own field, that spoils it.
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The hump of the ox that has grown old must be eaten by women.
Proverbs and old sayings about old, olderness
A branch of 'mutundu' does not hinder the division of a field.
Proverbs and old sayings about obstacles
When yuh see a man fishing in a dry pond don't call he a fool.
Proverbs and old sayings about man
The baby that refuses its mother's breast, will never be full.
Proverbs and old sayings about mother
The little bird that flaps its wings too much will spoil them.
Proverbs and old sayings
One favours him from whom one has in the past received a gift.
Proverbs and old sayings about gifts, past
Everybody regrets not what he leaves but what he does not find.
Proverbs and old sayings
Nobody can see his own goodness: it can be seen only by others.
Proverbs and old sayings
The man that serves is not prevented from being served in turn.
Proverbs and old sayings about being, man
Quarrelling is peculiar to the woman who has got male children.
Proverbs and old sayings about children, woman
The place to use the club and the above arrow are not the same.
Proverbs and old sayings about use
The son does not cut his finger in cutting meat for his father.
Proverbs and old sayings
To despise the ox means to despise also a strip of hide from it.
Proverbs and old sayings
There is no pleasure that does not cause one's cheeks to tremble.
Proverbs and old sayings about pleasure
The village, which has got a whetstone, does not blunt the knife.
Proverbs and old sayings
The animal caught in the trap does not refuse to set itself free.
Proverbs and old sayings
No married woman will have her white hair shaved at her mother's.
Proverbs and old sayings about mother, woman
When the food is cooked there is no need to wait before eating it.
Proverbs and old sayings about food, need
The cooking pot on the fire leaks, when pouring water it is broken.
Proverbs and old sayings about fire, fire brigade, water
