Proverbs and old sayings, page 366

43574 proverbs and old sayings

The animal rambling in the stable makes the sleeping ones rise too.

Proverbs and old sayings

The hyena does not eat its baby, and you know how insatiable it is.

Proverbs and old sayings

The ox which has no horns, relies for help on the one that has them.

Proverbs and old sayings about help

There is no partridge which does not know its own way of scratching.

Proverbs and old sayings

Nobody grumbles while carrying a load, but when he has laid it down.

Proverbs and old sayings

When yuh leave home pon a morning, yuh don't know who gine feed yuh.

Proverbs and old sayings about home

A person will change his mind on something if left to sleep over it.

Proverbs and old sayings about change, mind, sleep, people

He who goes around with his body upright, later on will go crawling.

Proverbs and old sayings about body

The cimex lives in the firewood and still it reaches its full growth.

Proverbs and old sayings

To forget a strong man who could help you is the same as to scorn him.

Proverbs and old sayings about help, man

No prepotent man will insult other people for two consecutive seasons.

Proverbs and old sayings about people, man

Hyena says that men are wise because they know how to hold a firebrand.

Proverbs and old sayings about man

The bird who has always possessed a beak, does not pick up for another.

Proverbs and old sayings

If the first goat goes lame, those that follow will not reach the pasture.

Proverbs and old sayings

It is always the potato of another family's boy that extinguishes the fire.

Proverbs and old sayings about family, fire, fire brigade

No war has been fought by men carrying a calabash of 'njohi' but of 'ucuru'.

Proverbs and old sayings about war, man

The goats pasture with bells hanging from their necks in order not to stray.

Proverbs and old sayings about order

The man who has no impurity will be helped even by peels he sees on the road.

Proverbs and old sayings about man

The vulture perches on the trees because it does not feel sure on the groung.

Proverbs and old sayings

A man is poor not because he scorns possessions, but because he possesses nothing.

Proverbs and old sayings about nothing, man