The wise are as rare as eagles that fly high in the sky.
Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about sky
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43574 proverbs and old sayings
Young man, countries practice witchcraft on one another.
Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about country, man
Dance, father, people's eyes don't eat, they just stare.
Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about dance, eyes, people
A bone does not bring itself, it is people that bring it.
Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about people
The bull should be taken by the horns, a man at his word.
Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about word, man
Visitors' footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick.
Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about medicine
A woman's clothes are the price her husband pays for peace.
Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about clothes, husband, peace, woman
He was entrapped by the evening, it has cost him his marriage.
Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about marriage
Just one by one white hairs have come, and thus have they grown.
Proverbs and old sayings Bantu
Even if your bee-hive has no honey in it, you shouldn't break it up.
Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about contentment
What one won't eat by itself, one will eat when mixed with other food.
Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about food
Even if you are cunning, you will not tie water up in a bale of grass.
Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about water, contentment
A child one does not instruct on return, one instructs him when going.
Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about children
Your friend, one doesn't stare at his forehead, one stares at his stomach.
Proverbs and old sayings Bantu
Whenever I work hard for other people, I always sleep on an empty stomach.
Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about sleep, work, people
Words in conversation are like beans, one breaks them off where they are ripe.
Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about conversation, word
We celebrated at the wax door, and all the time the honeycomb was empty within.
Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about time
Where there is a friend, one does not have to call, he will come of his own accord.
Proverbs and old sayings Bantu
Earth is like a prison: we all go in through the same door, but we stay in different cells.
Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about prison, earth
There is no return, worse luck; for could I return, I would foresee what has come into the country.
Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about country, bad luck, good luck
