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The man with one wife is the boss of all bachelors.

Proverbs and old sayings Ugandan about bachelors, heads, wife, man

What is inside a package is known only to its owner.

Proverbs and old sayings Ugandan

Familiarity is like the sea that kills the fisherman.

Proverbs and old sayings Ugandan

You can burn down a house, but can you hide the smoke?

Proverbs and old sayings Ugandan about smoke, home, house, contentment

Only take away the wife of a strong man when he is out.

Proverbs and old sayings Ugandan about wife, man

She who keeps losing children doesn't invent names anymore.

Proverbs and old sayings Ugandan about children

'My mother is indeed the best baby carrier, ' says the baby.

Proverbs and old sayings Ugandan about mother

Ask help from the spirits after having used all your strength.

Proverbs and old sayings Ugandan about help

Men will love each other as long as one is richer than the other.

Proverbs and old sayings Ugandan about man, love

The bird that pecks at a rock trusts in the strength of its beak.

Proverbs and old sayings Ugandan about rocks

The best part of happiness lies is in the secret heart of a lover.

Proverbs and old sayings Ugandan about happiness, secret, heart

It is better to be married to an old lady than to remain unmarried.

Proverbs and old sayings Ugandan about old, olderness

Old men sit in the shade because they planted a tree many years before.

Proverbs and old sayings Ugandan about man, old, olderness

When throne into the sea the stone said, 'after all, this is also a home. '

Proverbs and old sayings Ugandan about home

In the home of the coward they laugh while in the home of the brave they cry.

Proverbs and old sayings Ugandan about home

One who keeps saying 'I will listen and obey' will be cooked with the corn cob.

Proverbs and old sayings Ugandan

The person who has not traveled widely thinks his or her mother is the best cook.

Proverbs and old sayings Ugandan about kitchen, mother, people

If he has thrown the only spear he had at you, it means that he doesn't fear you.

Proverbs and old sayings Ugandan about fear, contentment

If a woman sees a stick for beating her rival, she will throw it away in the woods.

Proverbs and old sayings Ugandan about woman

It is better that trials come to you in the beginning and you find peace afterwards than that they come to you at the end.

Proverbs and old sayings Ugandan about beginning, peace, end, contentment