Proverbs and old sayings, page 368

43575 proverbs and old sayings

Nobody entering a hut pays for the heart he will enjoy in it.

Proverbs and old sayings about heart

The rambling pole-cat leaves its house when there is banquet.

Proverbs and old sayings about home, house

It is not the owner, trampling his own field, that spoils it.

Proverbs and old sayings

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 fishing, 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 about trap

No married woman will have her white hair shaved at her mother's.

Proverbs and old sayings about mother, woman