What one won't eat by itself, one will eat when mixed with other food.
Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about food
Proverbs and old sayings Bantu, page 4
70 proverbs and old sayings bantu
Even if you are cunning, you will not tie water up in a bale of grass.
Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about water
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
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 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
