Proverbs and old sayings Bantu, page 3

70 proverbs and old sayings bantu

It is better to have no law than not enforcing it.

Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about law

The road doesn't tell the traveler what lies ahead.

Proverbs and old sayings Bantu

The insolence of shortness is to stretch itself big.

Proverbs and old sayings Bantu

You take a bull by the horns and a man by his words.

Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about man

They are happy, the free men that have their fathers.

Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about happiness, man

The horizon will not disappear as you run towards it.

Proverbs and old sayings Bantu

Who suffers from diarrhea, is not afraid of the dark.

Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about dark

The most stupid chicken always challenges the wildcat.

Proverbs and old sayings Bantu

Even if we eat, earth will eventually enter our mouth.

Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about earth

The hunter who always comes home with meat is a thief.

Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about hunters, thieves, home

The wise are as rare as eagles that fly high in the sky.

Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about sky

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