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There is no partridge which does not know its own way of scratching.

Proverbs and old sayings

Nobody grumbles while carrying a load, but when he has laid it down.

Proverbs and old sayings

When yuh leave home pon a morning, yuh don't know who gine feed yuh.

Proverbs and old sayings about home

A person will change his mind on something if left to sleep over it.

Proverbs and old sayings about change, mind, sleep, people

He who goes around with his body upright, later on will go crawling.

Proverbs and old sayings about body

The cimex lives in the firewood and still it reaches its full growth.

Proverbs and old sayings

To forget a strong man who could help you is the same as to scorn him.

Proverbs and old sayings about help, man, contentment

No prepotent man will insult other people for two consecutive seasons.

Proverbs and old sayings about people, man

Hyena says that men are wise because they know how to hold a firebrand.

Proverbs and old sayings about man

The bird who has always possessed a beak, does not pick up for another.

Proverbs and old sayings

If the first goat goes lame, those that follow will not reach the pasture.

Proverbs and old sayings

It is always the potato of another family's boy that extinguishes the fire.

Proverbs and old sayings about family, fire, fire brigade

No war has been fought by men carrying a calabash of 'njohi' but of 'ucuru'.

Proverbs and old sayings about war, man

The goats pasture with bells hanging from their necks in order not to stray.

Proverbs and old sayings about order

The man who has no impurity will be helped even by peels he sees on the road.

Proverbs and old sayings about man

The vulture perches on the trees because it does not feel sure on the groung.

Proverbs and old sayings

You can take a monkey out of the bush, but you cant take the bush of a monkey.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

A man is poor not because he scorns possessions, but because he possesses nothing.

Proverbs and old sayings about nothing, man

There is no location which discusses its affairs in the same way as the other does.

Proverbs and old sayings

The goat slaughtered for a man who is sick now, finds another who ws sick long before.

Proverbs and old sayings about man