Bantu proverbs

What one won't eat by itself, one will eat when mixed with other food.

Even if you are cunning, you will not tie water up in a bale of grass.

A child one does not instruct on return, one instructs him when going.

Your friend, one doesn't stare at his forehead, one stares at his stomach.

Whenever I work hard for other people, I always sleep on an empty stomach.

Words in conversation are like beans, one breaks them off where they are ripe.

We celebrated at the wax door, and all the time the honeycomb was empty within.

Where there is a friend, one does not have to call, he will come of his own accord.

Earth is like a prison: we all go in through the same door, but we stay in different cells.

There is no return, worse luck; for could I return, I would foresee what has come into the country.

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