Author M.I.K.E.T Kasadha

1.                              A baby on its mother’s back doesn’t know the journey is long.
2.                              A bachelor should always spend minimum time with a friend’s wife.
3.                              A bachelor’s wife doesn’t have ears.
4.                              A bad cook also has his/her share of the bad food.
5.                              A bad habit is like fire you can’t play with it and expect not to get burnt.
6.                              A barren woman is like a leaking pot.
7.                              A beautiful one hurts the heart.
8.                              A beggar’s knees are supple.
9.                              A bird doesn’t alert his fellow bird that a stone is coming.
10.                          A bird doesn’t forget one who killed off his feathers during the rain
                  season.
11.                          A bird may fly off the earth and land on an anthill, but it will still be on
                  the ground.
12.                          A bird that prays for rain will find its self soaked.
13.                          A bird with fire on its tail burns its own nest.
14.                          A blind person knows his environment more than a visitor with eyes.
15.                          A bottle that believes it’s cracked to smile it will end up on the dustbin.
16.                          A boy may cry; but a man as to conceal his pain.
17.                          A bush that doesn’t rotate baskets must not grow mushrooms.
18.                          A butterfly thinks itself a bird because it can fly.
19.                          A camel cannot see the crookedness of its neck.
20.                          A canoe peddler doesn’t tell the crocodile he has along snout until he’s
                  crossed the river.
21.                          A cat in its castle has a lion’s teeth.
22.                          A cat keeps its crawls inside until it meets a mouse.
23.                          A centipede is not crippled by the loss of one limb.
24.                          A chameleon can only change its colour but never change its skin.
25.                          A chick that will grow into a cock can be spotted the very day it hatches.
26.                          A child who knows how to wash his hands will eat with the chiefs.
27.                          A chief in the village never sees the devil.
28.                          A chief may have more wives than he can remember but you dare not try
                  to share his wives with him.
29.                          A chief should not create a new law when he is angry.
30.                          A child among elders converses with its ears.
31.                          A child can play with its mother’s breasts, but not its father’s testicles.
32.                          A child doesn’t belong to the father or mother; a child belongs to the
                  ancestors.
33.                          A child doesn’t breast-feed from a stepmother if its mother is still alive.
34.                          A child while bathing only scrubs its stomach.
35.                          A child who eats too much shouldn’t blame is buttock.
36.                          A child who is fearless is going to bring tears to his mother’s eyes.
37.                          A child who protested when being stripped on the back by its mother, it’s
                  humbled by the scorching sun when left to walk.
38.                          A clean conscience makes a soft pillow.
39.                          A clear conscience fears no accusation.
40.                          A cloudy sky doesn’t always cry rain.
41.                          A cock says it’s because of the situation it is faced with that it has its
                  knees in the opposite direction.
42.                          A corn swallowed by a fowl will never germinate in its belly.
43.                          A corpse doesn’t have time to cover its pubic region.
44.                          A cow without a tail should not try to chase away flies.
45.                          A coward always hides behind someone else after he has thrown a stone.
46.                          A cowardly hyena lives longer.
47.                          A dead body cannot urge over how it should be placed in the grave.
48.                          A dead cock never crows.
49.                          A debt may get mouldy but it never decays.
50.                          A determined hunter is never frightened in the jungle.
51.                          A diamond doesn’t lose its value due to lack of admiration.
52.                          A difficult journey will make you daring and harden your will.
53.                          A dirty stick makes everyone who touches it dirty.
54.                          A dog cannot eat a bone tied to a snake.
55.                          A dog gives birth to a dog.
56.                          A dog knows its master but not its master’s master.
57.                          A dog that belongs to every one will die of hunger.
58.                          A dog will defend its territory though it’s friendly.
59.                          A dog will not follow its owner to follow a king.
60.                          A dog you don’t feed will never heed your call.
61.                          A donkey’s husband can protect it from a hyena.
62.                          A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
63.                          A drunkard is like a whisky bottle only neck and belly but no head.
64.                          A fallen branch cannot bear fruits on its own.
65.                          A false friend is like a shadow their only with you when the sun is shining.
66.                          A family is like a thick forest, often from outside its dense, when your
                  inside each tree has its own position.
67.                          A family tie is like a tree, it can bend but it cannot break.
68.                          A father never resembles his son, it’s the son that resembles the father.
69.                          A father voodoos with his son and a mother voodoos with her daughter.
70.                          A fatherless boy is no better than unburied seed.
71.                          A feather is just a delicate thing when removed from a bird because it
                  carries the bird everywhere in the world.
72.                          A foot must never quarrel with the ground.
73.                          A fish and bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together.
74.                          A fish will not live out of water but will prefer air to hot water.
75.                          A fly that dances carelessly in front of a spider’s web, risks the wrath of
                  the spider’s teeth.
76.                          A fly that falls on your wound is more important.
77.                          A fool and his money is one big party.
78.                          A foolish head weakens the feet.
79.                          A foreign cock can never crow in a foreign country.
80.                          A friend is one who knows every thing about you and still wants to be your friend.
81.                          A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody. 

1.             A friend who fawns is better than an enemy who smiles.
2.             A gentle politician doesn’t promise to build bridges where there is no

                  water.          

1.             A genuine gift is like water when it flows out it can never return.
2.             A girl’s patience can only be recognised by how long she keeps her

                  virginity.

1.             A good beginning is a halfway a battle won.
2.             A good day shows itself early in the morning.
3.             A good devil is as equal as to a bad god.
4.             A good leader was once a good follower.
5.             A good man gone wrong is usually a bad man found out.
6.             A good man never stays in the grave forever, he always has chance to

                  come back.

1.             A good name is better than wealth.
2.             A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.
3.             A good reputation is something you must pay for, but you can never buy.
4.             A good smile shows how happy the soul is.
5.             A grasshopper that sleeps about will be soon awake in a lizard’s mouth.
6.             A gravestone cannot be used for grinding.
7.             A green grass in the green snake.
8.             A guard dog cannot watch two homes at once.

100.                      A guest sees more in an hour than a host in a year.
 

1. A happy man marries the girl he loves, but a happier man loves the girl he

                  marries.

1. A hen’s curses have never killed the eagle.
2. A home without a woman is like a barn without a yam.
3. A horse may take the warrior to the battlefield but can never fight.
4. A house is for a voyage but a tomb is for eternity.
5. A hungry calf cannot frisk happily over another with a full stomach.
6. A hungry man will thrust his fingers into a snake’s hole in search of a

 grasshopper.
108.                      A hunter who is never satisfied with is gain will one day be forced to carry
 home an elephant.

1. A hunter with one arrow doesn’t shoot with a careless aim.
2. A husband may be the head of a home but the wife is the heart of a home.
3. A hyena is used to persistent rains.
4. A hypocrite’s hatred is hidden behind flattering words.
5. A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.
6. A juicy bone is useless to a dog with no teeth.
   
7. A king who doesn’t tolerate comments about his mouth shouldn’t eat in

                  public.

1. A kinsman in trouble has to be saved, not blamed.
2. A kola nut is small, but it is more important that it goes round to each

                   person and not that it fills the stomach.

1. A lamb takes after its mother.
2. A lazy chick that exposes itself will be a delicious meal for the eagle.
3. A lazy man will remember he has not planted when is neighbour is

                  harvesting.

1. A lazy man’s farm is the breeding ground for snakes.
2. A leader is he who tells his people what they must hear, not what they

                  want to hear.

1. A leopard is such an elusive animal that it can only be caught by the

                  combined force of a man and his father-in-law.

1. A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is still putting

                  on its shoes.

1. A lizard can’t be a snake even without its limbs.
2. A lizard longs to sit down but its tail doesn’t let it.
3. A lizard without one leg cannot move up a tree.
4. A long lasting visitor grinds the wine.
5. A long-tailed animal doesn’t jump over fire.
6. A man accused of stealing a goat should not entertain his visitors with

                  goats meat.

1. A man and a goat can be friends but it would be foolishness for the goat to

                  pay the first visit.

1. A man can’t challenge his spirit in a wrestling match.
2. A man doesn’t escape from bees with a lump of honey in his hand.
3. A man doesn’t know when he kills.

 

1. A man gets to the land of spirits when he passes seven rivers, seven forests

                  and seven hills.

1. A man has to hold his mouth open a long time before a roasted partridge

                  flies into it.

1. A man is always on the move.
2. A man is called a drunkard when he misbehaves, not when he drinks.
3. A man is not a man until he has a house of his own.
4. A man is obliged to beat his own chest when he has no drum.
5. A man is taller than every mountain he climbs.
6. A man isn’t dead until is buried.
7. A man must suffer in silence.
8. A man never grows up until his father dies.
9. A man should live to prove himself worth of his own flesh and blood.
10. A man should not be too happy in the morning.
11. A man should not, out of pride and etiquette, swallow his phlegm.
12. A man who after his dying speech doesn’t die, bears the same guilt.
13. A man who does no hard work will never know the value of rest.
14. A man who doesn’t know how to play sex disappears after the first time.
15. A man who hides a thorn in his foot earns a swelling.
16. A man who is patient is rewarded.
17. A man who is putting on his armour for war should not boast like a man

                  who’s taking it off.
 

1. A man who lives on the banks of the river should not wash his hands with

                  spittle.

1. A man who marries an outcast is like rain wasted in the forest.
2. A man who never recognises is mistakes will never know peace.
3. A man who smiles when he’s been robbed has stolen something from the

                  thief.

1. A man who touches the bottom of a soup plate with a ball of foofoo is no

                  longer searching for soup.

1. A man will never heed the voice of a woman until it is too late.
2. A man will show his true colours in adversity.
3. A man with a good will is not only rich but also wise.
4. A man’s in-law is his spirit.
5. A million of keys will get into a lock but only one will open it.
6. A moonlight has a bottom.
7. A mother cannot give birth to something bigger than herself.
8. A mother of twin should have impartial breasts.
9. A mouse does not share a bowl with a cat.
10. A new broom sweeps well, but the old broom knows all the corners.
11. A newly committed crime awakens sleeping ones.
12. A nice place is never yours.
13. A palm wine taper does not stop tapping palm wine because he once fell

                  from the top of a palm wine tree.
 

1. A parent should not give up modelling their children because the ancestors

                  too never give up on us.

1. A parent who says ‘if you were my own child I would have punished you’

                  is a witch.

1. A patient dually determined can fill a pot with water using a fingernail.
2. A person cutting the path doesn’t know that it is crooked.
3. A person is a person because of other people.
4. A person is what he eats.
5. A person who has not secured a place on the floor should not begin to look

                 for a mat.

1. A person who is always looking at the sky will never discover anything on

                  the ground.

1. A person who is carrying an elephant on his head should not use his feet to

                  tap snails on the ground.

1. A person who is stung by a bee fears a big housefly.
2. A person who sells eggs doesn’t start a fight in the market.
3. A person who wants to see is people progress must first set to look into

                  their tradition.

1. A person’s character is like pregnancy it cannot be hidden.
2. A person’s cleverness is not shown by how many words he utters at once

                  but how he utters them.

1. A picture is worth a thousand words.
2. A poor person has no struggles.
3. A potter eats from a broken piece of his pots.
4. A pregnant woman cannot claim to be a virgin.
5. A rat never goes near a cat’s celebration venue.
6. A rat stinks, but it has its own home.
7. A rat with many offspring always sleeps with his door open.
8. A regular fighter who discords peace is bound to be fought by his own

                  anger.

1. A restless grasshopper eventually ends up in a birds teeth.
2. A river doesn’t flow through the forest without felling the trees.
3. A river doesn’t run straight because there was nobody to advise it.
4. A river that forgets its source will soon dry out.
5. A rock in the middle of the sea is never afraid of the rain.
6. A ruined people are as miserable as a dog in the house of death.
7. A satisfied man doesn’t understand the feeling of a hungry man.
8. A scared dog barks to pretend to its master but a brave dog bits to protect

                  him.

1. A second wife cannot celebrate the beating of the first wife because that

                  same beating awaits her when the third wife arrives.

1. A secret remains a secret only when one person knows it.
2. A severely under paid hungry teacher in a renovated, well-equipped

                  classroom, can perform just as well as a bird without feathers can do in a
                        hanging, decorated cage.

1. A short man is not a boy.
2. A short person touches where he can reach.
3. A short rope ties nothing.
4. A sick way between two people can only be cared for if the two of them

                  die.

1. A sin against a brother or sister is an offence against the gods.
2. A single slip may cause lasting injury.
3. A slave must be humble.
4. A sleeping head needs more than its neck to support it.
5. A snail that doesn’t crawl with its shell should be ready to die.
6. A snake and millipede can both craw on their bellies but this doesn’t make

                  them brothers.

1. A snake can shade its skin but it still remains a snake.
2. A spider’s cobweb isn’t only its sleeping spring but also its food trap.
3. A spiritual leader is able to see the past, present and the future.
4. A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.
5. A stealing dog strengthens its back.
6. A stick at the neighbours cannot drive out a leopard at your home.
7. A strong man never stays long in the ground.
8. A strong person doesn’t rush to wake up early morning.
9. A strong tree shall always grow from the roots and not the seeds.
10. A sweet lovely voice cannot make a dumb person talk.
11. A talkative person is a traveller when he is tired, he keeps quiet.
12. A thorn under a baobab tree pricks deeper.
13. A tree cannot stand on the ground without its roots.
14. A tree climber begins from the bottom not the top.
15. A tree is known by its fruit.
16. A tree that refuses to dance will be made to do so by the wind.
17. A true friend is a special gift.
18. A village without the elderly is like a well without water.
19. A visitor doesn’t survive from a stick beat of a burglar.
20. A warrior is not a wrestler, he’s killed the moment is spear and shield are

                  over powered.

1. A weird child at times brings sweet fruits at home.
2. A whisper has more meaning than a noisy talk.
3. A white tooth has a bloody root.
4. A wind can move the branches of trees but it will never move the head of

                  a man.

1. A wise person must know the language, sayings, and tales of his society.
2. A wise saying goes without say.
3. A wise will is dedicated to the ancestors for its them who gave you

                  everything’

1. A woman is like a bee treat her well and she will make honey, treat her

                  badly and she will go wild.

1. A woman is never old when it comes to the dance she knows.
2. A woman who delivers a baby in the market square has nothing to hide.
3. A woman who pursues a man for sex looses her spiritual beauty.
4. A woman who runs holding her breast has got nothing pursuing her.
5. A woman who wants a child doesn’t sleep in her clothes.
6. A woman’s polite devotion is her greatest beauty.
7. A word to the wise is enough.
8. A word written stays forever than hundred spoken work.
9. A worm cannot kill a fly.
10. A wound given by a word is many times harder to cure than that which is

                  given by the sword.

1. After the evil cross the crown has come.
2. All great truths begins as blasphemies.
3. All is well that ends well.
4. All plants are our brothers and sisters and they talk to us and if we listen

                  we can hear them.

1. All war follow a demonstrate failure of difficulty diplomacy.
2. Almost everyone is mad but some people can control there madness.
3. Always stamp your hunting nets where the animal is going to pass.
4. An animal that gives birth to a young one in the desert must suckle it in

                  the desert.

1. An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a

                  sheep.

1. An egg shouldn’t be deceived by the hardness of its shell; it cannot

                  challenge a stone in a fight.

1. An elder uses old eyes to see and so the young use young eyes.
2. An elephant cannot thin to a cow size.
3. An elephant that kills a rat cannot be considered a hero.
4. An empty hand doesn’t kill a snake.
5. An empty sack cannot stand.
6. An endless war shames even a hero.
7. An immoral father-in-law cannot advise his children well.
8. An insolent tongue is a bad weapon.
9. An invasion of an army can be resisted but an invasion of ideas can’t be

                  resisted.

1. An old man may miss his target with a stone but never with his word.
2. An old man’s mouth produces a bad smell but the words that come out of

                  it are sweet.

1. An only palm-fruit doesn’t get lost in the fire.
2. An open mind only hurts those who fear their own mistakes.
3. Anger against a brother is felt in the flesh, not in the bone.
4. Any dead fish can flow down the river but it takes a live one to swim back

                  up stream.

1. Any weapon is dangerous even to a person handling it.
2. Anyone can be polite to a king, but it takes a gentleman to be polite to a

                  beggar.

1. Anyone suffering from a running stomach is never afraid of the dark.
2. Anyone who has sold an old lady, knows the price of an old man.
3. Anything with a beginning also has an end.
4. As long as a cock lives, it is said to have belonged to the child of the

                  house; but when it is slaughtered for super, it is then that the real owner
                  emerges.

1. As long as I make you to be inferior, I render myself inferior.
2. As soon as you question someone’s integrity, it is a reflection of your

                 own.

1. As you do for your ancestors, your children will do for you.
2. At a hunting expedition you cannot apportion the meat before you kill the

                  animal.

1. At that particular time a mad person gives you something take it

                  immediately before he changes is mind.

1. Bad officials are elected by poor citizens who do not vote.
2. Banish a strong man, banish a strong man but when there is war you will

                  look for the strong man.

1. Be aware of a man with a sweet tongue he can lead you to buying bad

                  meat.

1. Be careful of the words you say each day, make sure each is nice and

                  sweet, because may be in the days ahead, there will be some you’ll have to
                        eat.

1. Be careful of what you own because what you own might eventually own

                  you.

1. Be careful when you are sharing a calabash of porridge with a toothless

                  man.

1. Be humble in making demands even when making your demands.
2. Before buying a house, see who your neighbours will be.
3. Before you begin to trade in blame look in the mirror.
4. Behind every sweaty face of a cattle rustler is a story of determination and

                  courage.

1. Being a good friend of a scorpion doesn’t mean that you can’t be stung by

                  a honeybee.

1. Being a swimmer and spending time in the water does not make you a

                  fish.

1. Being blind doesn’t mean one cannot dream or imagine.
   
2. Being in the forest and failing to see trees is a curse.
3. Better a calamity to be far away.
4. Better give birth to a sweating baby than a laughing one.
5. Better stay with the devil you know than an angel you don’t know.
6. Better to aim at comfort’ than at luxury.
7. Better to bit your tongue than biting your words.
8. Beware of time because it has the answers.
9. Birds sing not because they have answers but because they have songs.
10. Blessings of ancestors are greater than those of a living human being.
11. Bones and flesh of the martyrs lie buried in earth, but their revolutionary

                  spirit and single-hearted fidelity remain alive.

1. Born by the fire and die by the fire.
2. Breaking news of the dead in the right way is very important.
3. Buy the truth but never sell it.
4. By the time you tell a secret to a mad person then a normal person you

                  cannot see.

1. Call a cat a cat.
2. Chop your own firewood and it will warm you twice.
3. Cleverness is better than strength.
4. Clothes make the man.
5. Cream always rises to the top.
6. Dancing depends on the parents.
7. Daybreak, mouth open.
8. Death is a thief.
9. Debt is slavery.
10. Defeat is not failure but trail is total failure.
11. Defiance is the biggest weapon of the weak.
12. Despise not a snail for its slow and struggling movement; it has a

                  destination and with time it shall arrive.

1. Despite the beauty of the moon, sun and the stars, the sky also has a

                  threatening thunder and striking lightening.

1. Do not eat the fingers that feed you.
2. Do not run away from a pond of water.
3. Do not speak badly of a crocodile when your leg is in the river.
4. Do not walk behind us, we may not lead; do not walk in front of us, we

                  may not follow; walk besides us, so that we may guide each other.

1. Don’t admire the flying bird before you know the pain of flapping.
2. Don’t be stupid to replace wisdom with knowledge because you will lose

                  understanding.

1. Don’t beat the drums of war unless you’re ready to fight.
2. Don’t count the many times a man falls but those times he rises up.
3. Don’t enter a defecating competition against an elephant.
4. Don’t ever try to give a spear to a former mad man.
5. Don’t give a dog a bad name in order to have an excuse to burn it.
6. Don’t insult the dead.
7. Don’t laugh at others.
8. Don’t laugh at the nakedness of our ancestors because before their eyes

                  we’re all naked for our spirits belong to them.

1. Don’t let a fool kiss you no let a kiss fool you.
2. Don’t let your past dictate your future.
3. Don’t look at the visitor’s face but at his stomach.
4. Don’t look into the eyes of your lover, or you will see what he has told

                  many women before.

1. Don’t loose hope no situation is permanent.
2. Don’t make a goat your friend if your skirt is made of plantation leaves, or

                  else it will strip you naked.

1. Don’t move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the

                 fatherless.
 

1. Don’t question a blind man for buying a mirror, it must serve him some

                  purpose.

1. Don’t respond to a mosquito bit with a stone because you will miss it and

                  hunt yourself.

1. Don’t see animals around the village and say there is nobody to hunt them.
2. Don’t seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt you may he break

                  his neck.

1. Don’t tell your important secret to your friend because your friend has his

                  other friends as well.

1. Don’t throw away your nets if you catch nothing, you never know what

                  the gods are planning next.

1. Don’t underestimate the determination of a quiet person.
2. Don’t underestimate the wisdom of ancestors.
3. Don’t undermine my silence, its got reason; don’t rate it, it as got no scale.
4. Don’t wait for an anthill to build up in your mushroom better attack its

                  origin sooner than later.

1. Don’t water your friend’s garden when yours is full of weeds.
2. Dreams are related to the past but connected to the future.
3. Dreams are voices of ancestors.
4. Dry thunder that tears the sky doesn’t make you forget the storm of

                  yesterday.

1. Ears that do not listen to advice, accompany the head when it is chopped

                  off.

1. Eating a lot does not satisfy greediness.
2. Eating is kinship.
3. Eating tough meat is always harder for a toothless lion.
4. Enjoy breakfast all alone, share lunch with your best friend and give

                 dinner to your enemy.

1. Even a healer’s lies are a big relief to a sick person.
2. Even a horn can be stopped from fighting and made to sing forever.
3. Even boiled water can extinguish a fire.
4. Even drumsticks are heavy on the way home after the dance.
5. Even if the hen is poor it cannot leave blank eggs.
6. Even if you close your eyes while looking in the mirror the image remains

                  yours.

1. Even if you dance for you enemy on the rock, he will accuse you of

                  splashing water on him.

1. Even if you rease your clothes in very hot water you still need to dry them.
2. Even if you remain an island you must still be friendly to the sea.
3. Even the colours of a chameleon are for survival not beauty.
4. Even the dog leaves the market.
5. Even the high and noble bow before the barber.
6. Even the starving man cannot eat the king’s regurgitate.
7. Even though the elephant is huge enough it cannot carry a big tail.
8. Even two friendly dogs cannot share a single bone.
9. Even when a goat knows that it is being dragged to graze, it still resists.
10. Even when a snake doesn’t bit, do not put your finger in it’s mouth.
11. Even when you dig a soft place, you still leave the garden.
12. Every action has its repercussions.
13. Every bad person deserves a bad problem.
14. Every exit is an entry to somewhere.
15. Every fresh banana leaf should eventually become a dry banana leaf.
16. Every frog is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother.
17. Every misfortune is a blessing.
18. Every old man was once a young man but not every young man will

                  become an old man.

1. Every time you have something good there is someone who wants you to

                  throw it so as they can pick it.

1. Everyone has a right to be stupid some just abuse the right.
2. Everything has a pattern and a partner.
3. Everywhere there is a lot of mad even an elephant will slip.
4. Evil prospers because good men fail to act.
5. Fire is always a good maid, but a bad boss.
6. Fire that is surrounded by elders cannot burn you.
7. Firewood yields ash.
8. Follow the liar right to his door.
9. Food gained by fraud tastes sweet to a man, but he ends up with gravel in

                  his mouth.

1. Foolhardiness made the rat try to jump over the fireplace.
2. For one to succeed in life, one has to work hard.
3. For the fisherman, the fun is over when the fish are in the net.
4. Fun is like fine beer it is rarely enjoyable alone.
5. Generally with life you will be betrayed by close relatives.
6. Generosity has its disadvantages.
7. Generosity is white and pure like milk.
8. Get hold of the little you have as you struggle for more quantity or quality.
9. Get what to lend out and at the same time how to demand it back, for

                  payment might be a tussle.

1. Getting only a beautiful woman is like planting a vine on the roadside

                  everyone feeds on it.

1. Give a stammerer enough time and he will pronounce his father’s name.
2. Give me a fish and I will eat today, teach me to fish and I will eat for a

                  lifetime.

1. Going slowly doesn’t stop one arriving.
2. Good music goes with good food.
3. Good resolutions are like babies crying in church, they should be carried

                  out immediately.

1. Good things are hot.
2. Grass doesn’t grow on a bushy road.
3. Great men think alike.
4. Happiness is like a perfume, you cannot pour it all on others without

                  allowing a few drops to fall on yourself.

1. Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.
2. Happiness often sneaks through your door when you left the door open.
3. Happy is a man who goes hunting for rats and catches an elephant.
4. Haste and hurry can only bear children with many regrets.
5. Haste makes waste.
6. Having a goal is just a dream with a deadline.
7. Having beauty doesn’t mean understanding the perseverance of marriage.
8. He is a fool who praises the fruit of a tree and forgets its roots.
9. He is a wise man who has no worries about the things he doesn’t have but

                  he rejoices for those things that he has.

1. He that beats the drum for the mad man to dance is no better than the mad

                  man himself.

1. He that dines with the gods must do so with a very long spoon.
2. He that fights for a ne’er-do-well has nothing to show for it except a head

                  covered in earth and grime.

1. He that fought the lion must surely have the lion’s claws in his body.
2. He who angers you controls you.
3. He who asks for the meaning of a proverb has called her/his mother’s

                 dowry a waste.

1. He who asks you to converse ends up telling others that you’re shouting.
2. He who banishes you is the one who shows you the way.
3. He who brings firewood infected with maggots in his house should not

                  complain when lizards start visiting him.

1. He who burns down his house knows why ashes cost a fortune.
2. He who came to work never sleeps.
3. He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he

                  who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.

1. He who chews two bones at the same time will surely bite his tongue.
2. He who crosses a bridge to paradise and blows it after him is going to hell.
3. He who defects on the way finds flies on his way back.
4. He who dies of over eating doesn’t wither.
5. He who does is work properly has been well advised.
6. He who doesn’t clean his mouth before breakfast always complains that

                  the food is sour.

1. He who doesn’t console the bereaved will never be mourned by others.
2. He who doesn’t feel jealousy is not in love.
3. He who doesn’t find is way back from the forest gets lost within it.
4. He who doesn’t know a grave’s coldness, doesn’t give the dead their

                  respect.

1. He who doesn’t know how a snake smells shouldn’t walk into the forest.
2. He who doesn’t know what kills can sit on fire.

456.                      He who doesn’t know where he is going doesn’t know whether or when he
                  will arrive.

1. He who doesn’t know you, will not value you.
2. He who doesn’t listen to advise from others goes to his parents in-law

                  smeared with faeces.

1. He who drinks wine without libation is a traitor to the gods.
2. He who eats an egg foregoes a future meal of chicken soup.
3. He who falls, teaches others a lesson.
4. He who fears fire cannot be a leader.
5. He who feeds the child must be allowed to lick his fingers.
6. He who feels it, knows it.
   
7. He who forgets his past is lost.
8. He who gets annoyed of darkness ends up knocking himself everywhere.
9. He who guards his lips, guards his life.
10. He who has brothers has more than riches can buy.
11. He who has given up doesn’t blame the one moving on.
12. He who has got experience can milk a running cow.
13. He who has no pond must not breed crocodiles.
14. He who has people is richer than he who has money.
15. He who has the choice has the pain.
16. He who holds somebody on the ground is holding himself too.
17. He who is always in a hurry to get things done he never gets it done right.
18. He who is close to you knows more about you than he who is far away.
19. He who is first to receive something forgets when his friend will receive

                  their share.

1. He who is grown up should respect and love others.
2. He who is intelligent is taught.

 

1. He who is not beaten by the sun or the rain, will eventually be beaten by

                  the hunger.

1. He who is not happy with the position of the sun should climb and change

                  it.

1. He who is wise endeavours to learn how to understand the truth not less
   

                  than that.

1. He who isn’t around is never beaten by the falling tree.
   
2. He who judges others and never allows to be judged looses friends.
3. He who knows that he has enough is rich.
4. He who lends out his door should be ready for the cold blowing wind.
5. He who lies by the fireside knows how it burns.
6. He who misleads you cannot buy you.
7. He who moves with each day is better than another who waits for luck.
8. He who never eats pumpkins with you, you prepare a few slices for him.
9. He who never knows where is coming from will never know where he is

                 going.

1. He who never moves about appreciates only one’s mother’s cookery

                  skills.

1. He who predicts or prophesise isn’t the one who causes his predictions to

                  take shape.

1. He who pursues a hatched bird teaches it how to fly.
2. He who reminds you or corrects you is better than he who slanders you.

 

1. He who sacks his wife because she eats a lot will end up marrying a

                  cannibal.

1. He who says we shall hear what happened never responds to any alarm of

                  agency.

1. He who says what will I do will never lack what to do.
2. He who solves a problem with a problem will always have a problem in

                  waiting.

1. He who starts his work early enough is neither hit by the severe sun heat

                  nor the burning sand.

1. He who swallows an old man vomits grey hair.
2. He who talks forgets what he said but he who listens can’t forget.
3. He who talks to you while travelling at night is thanked in the morning.
4. He who tries to shake a tree stump shakes only himself.
5. He who ventures into the bush should close his ears to rattling.
6. He who visits you personally is better than another who sends a delegate.
7. He who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn’t been asleep.
8. He who wakes up early in the morning receives a bundle of blessings.
9. He who wanders along the beach doesn’t eat his rice dry.
10. He who wants authority should never be a visitor.
11. He who wants to plant corns must make peace with the monkeys.
12. He who wants to take much dies before going to the in-laws for

                  introduction.

1. He who will be a man can be seen from how he stretches is little manhood.
2. Him with is own knowledge know how to eat from it.
3. Him with a bold head knows how to protect it through thorns.
4. Him with a bushy field cannot harvest edibles from it.
5. Him with a clean future has a clean past.
6. Honest advice doesn’t destroy true friendship.
7. Hooting all right and sleeping all day, doesn’t make an owl wise.
8. Hope is a good thing and good things never die.
9. How come that when I lost my sheep and could not find it, I was

                  questioned; but the hyena who was found with the sheepskin is not
                        questioned.

1. How ever big a rat is, it can’t threaten a cat.
2. However hot the sun, it will never dry the sea.
3. However long the dry season takes a seasonal river will never forget

                  where it used to pass.

1. However loud an ant shouts from the ground, no one will hear it.
2. I have learnt your language so I can damn you.
3. Ideas are worth a dime dozen, but people who put them into action are

                  priceless.

1. If a bachelor who uses firewood for cooking runs away in the morning to

                  avoid removing the ash; he will have to deal with it when he comes back.

1. If a bird bills the rock then it trusts its beck.
2. If a cat wants to look after your fish don’t believe him.
3. If a dog bites you once it’s his fault, but if it bites you again it’s your fault.
4. If a dog bites you, you don’t attack it but you attack its owner.
5. If a man returns from a long journey and no one says welcome back to

                  him he feels like one who has not arrived.

1. If a man rides on the back of a tiger, he should never be surprised if he

                  ends up in its tummy.

1. If a mother steals with a child stripped in the back what do you expect of

                  the child.

1. If a soldier doesn’t have ambitions to become a general is not a good

                  soldier.

1. If a tree is cursed even its shade is unclean.
2. If all snakes live together in one place who would approach them.
3. If an insect as ever bit you when you see it, you kill it or run away.
4. If I see you often, I can’t call you a visitor.
5. If it is not broken don’t try to fix it.
6. If money where to be found up in the trees, most people would be married

                  to monkeys.

1. If nakedness promises to cloth you then look at its name.
2. If one didn’t laugh, one would have to cry.
3. If opportunity doesn’t knock build a door.
4. If rain beats the teeth, the lips get the blame.
5. If she can’t dig or cook send her back to her father.
6. If someone is waiting for something important they wouldn’t die until they

                  achieve it.

1. If the banana pest doesn’t die it will always reach at the ripe banana.   
2. If the fish comes out of the river to tell you that the crocodile has one eye,

                  you should believe it.

1. If the goat rejects the grass, its belly is full.
2. If the nail decided to malinger, it would not pierce butter.
3. If the sun said it had power over the moon then let it come and shine at

                  night.

1. If the throat can grant passage to a knife, the anus should wonder how to

                  expel it.

1. If there is something one really wants to achieve, one is willing to go an

                  extra mile and overcome the difficulties to achieve it.

1. If two brothers fight over their father’s land, it is a stranger who will enjoy

                  there sweat and labour.

1. If water were enough, fish would not take bait.
2. If we do what we always did we will always remain what we always

                  we’re.

1. If wisdom is measured by the size of the beard then the goat is a

                  philosopher king.

1. If you are digging a pit for your enemy, don’t make it too deep, for you

                  may fall into it.

1. If you befriend a mosquito it will still attack you at night.
2. If you borrow from an eagle you will always be looking up in the sky.
3. If you break a coconut on a man’s head, he will not enjoy eating it.
4. If you can bear the hissing of a snake, don’t complain when you are bitten.
5. If you can’t distinguish how to whistle a festival alarm from a warning

                  alarm, then better not alarm and let s/he who knows the difference to do
                        the alarming.

1. If you can’t eat a little your mouth stinks.
2. If you can’t hold children in your arms, please hold them in your heart.
3. If you can’t stand the heat then get out of the kitchen.
4. If you cannot moan in a true cultural manner then it means your laughing.
5. If you chase two rabbits you will catch none.
6. If you choose to lie down with dogs, you must be prepared to wake up

                  with fleas.

1. If you choose to make friendship with a pig you must be prepared to live

                  in the mad.

1. If you close your eyes because of the bad people around you, you will not

                  see the good people passing by.

1. If you close your eyes to facts, you will learn through accidents.
2. If you cry and receive someone to help you cry more then you cry more.
3. If you cry because you miss the sun, your tears will not let you see the

                  moon.

1. If you cure a monkey of its tooth ache its your maize farm that suffers.
2. If you dance with the devil you can’t change him but he will change.
3. If you decide to dress up a lizard you should count for its tail.

 

1. If you dig a hole to bury a person but instead of burying that person you

                  may be the one to be buried in this place.

1. If you don’t eat mangos that fall on the ground, be sure to be strong

                  enough to pick ones on the tree.

1. If you don’t inquire, you’re bound to make mistakes.
2. If you don’t know the path to the spring or swamp, follow the trail of

                  broken pots.

1. If you don’t know where your going to then any road will take you where

                  you’re going.

1. If you don’t mend up a small crack on the wall you end up building the

                  entire wall.

1. If you don’t scale the mountain, you can’t view the plain.
2. If you don’t want a tail of a monkey to touch you then don’t attend the

                  monkey dance.

1. If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
2. If you flog a baboon because it is ugly, you will end up killing it.
3. If you get annoyed of what you see, you blame your eyes.
4. If you give a handshake to the leopard, next time he will come for an

                  embrace.

1. If you give bad food to your stomach, it drums for you to dance.
2. If you go to your in-laws you do not come back empty handed but with a

                  cock.
 

1. If you hate your ancestors then assume your dead than you will love the

                  hereafter.

1. If you have a dog to worship you, you must have a cat to ignore you.
2. If you have a poor father that is destiny; if you have a poor father-in-law,

                  that is your mistake.

1. If you have ground nuts in your room expect rats.
2. If you have health you have hope you have everything.
3. If you have patience you can take out the holes of an anthill.
4. If you haven’t any sheep you won’t know that a fox is a wild animal.
5. If you haven’t done anything evil then you shouldn’t be worried about

                  devils knocking on your door.

1. If you hide a sick person, your lamentation alarm will only announce his

                 death.

1. If you ignore your own relatives you will serve the outsiders.
2. If you keep stirring at a girl you cannot have you will never see a girl you

                  can have.

1. If you keep your head and heart going in the right direction you don’t have

                  to worry about your feet.

1. If you kill time, you’ll bury opportunities.
2. If you knock your head against a wall, then a coconut tree and pillar and

                  your head still remains undamaged my child, go and hide that head of
                        yours; it is a good head.

1. If you lie the ancestors will punish you.
2. If you live by the river you can hear the crab cough.
3. If you live in a glasshouse you should not throw stones.
4. If you man is a wizard, you must become a witch.
5. If you need ears go and borrow them from the elephant.
6. If you are not an animal you will never find yourself in a trap.
7. If you observe attentively you will even find wisdom in shadows.
8. If you offer to share your seat with a person who has a big bottom your

                  bound to lose it completely.

1. If you pay homage to the man on top, others will pay homage to you when

                  it’s your turn to be on top.

1. If you point one accusing finger at others, three fingers will point at you.
2. If you put a bone in the dog’s mouth it doesn’t bark.
3. If you run too fast you bypass a safe place you would have hidden

                  yourself.

1. If you see an animal running in the early morning know that it is running

                  away from something more scarily than the due.

1. If you see your brother being scalped, put water on your hair.
2. If you think education is expensive try ignorance.
3. If you think you’re too small to be noticed go and sleep in a room which is

                  full of mosquitoes.

1. If you tie a frog on the leg a snake will follow you.
2. If you travel with lies you will reach your destination but you might be

                  unable to retrace your steps.

1. If you debark a tree don’t expect it to live again; you can only plant

                  another of its kind.

1. If you value piece and freedom you will loose it.
2. If your vision is for a year plant wheat, if you vision is for a decade plant

                  trees, and if your vision is for a lifetime plant people.

1. If you wait for the roasted liver to cool it will get cold in someone else’s

                  mouth.

1. If you wait you may never start.
2. If you want a better tomorrow do good today.
3. If you want people to understand you, you speak their language.
4. If you want to blame the fox, then blame the hen too.
5. If you want to drink clear water from a well be there first.
6. If you want to eat a monkey, don’t look in its eyes.
7. If you want to eat a toad you should look for a fat and juicy one.
8. If you want to fight fire, you don’t wear a skirt made of dry grass.
9. If you want to grow a long tooth you must have enough lips to cover it.
10. If you want to improve your memory, lend someone money.
11. If you want to know how long a man’s tongue is, let him use his mouth to

                  lick honey from a plate.

1. If you want to remove a mountain start with one stone at a time.
2. If you want to sit under a shade in your old age plant a tree now.
3. If you want to smear somebody’s face with mud, be prepared to dirty your

                  hands.

1. If you wait for the downfall of the king, god will not make it sound.
2. If you want visitors then you leave your front door open.
3. If you waste time, surely time will waste you.
4. If you were in a place you take care of it has if it where yours.
5. If you wait be prepared to be stung by the bees.
6. If you what the hyena to eat a person then tie on him goats ears.
7. If you’re a good person even after death your grave is loved.
8. If you’re filled with pride then you will not have room for wisdom.
   
9. If you’re holding someone you can drop him and move on.
10. If you’re not at the war front its easy to assume we didn’t put up a good

                  fight.

1. If you aren’t in your own home, you dance while seated.
2. If you’re to cure a chicken you do so while it is still kicking.
3. If you’re to jump a swamp, you need to make one long hurdle.
4. If you’ve never been to a pit latrine, you will never know that cockroach is

                  a chief.

1. If you’re caught in a trap then you’re the thief.
2. If your husband has many wives, the only sure way for him into you’re the

                  bedroom is through a delicious meal.

1. If your mouth is in someone else’s kitchen it cannot get its independence.
2. If you’re not thankful then you’re a wizard.
3. If you’re very unkind today don’t expect favours tomorrow.

 

1. In a community it’s better every person to have a little of something than

                  one person to have everything.

1. In a family if you have somebody who is troublesome it’s the family

                  members who are worried than the troublesome member.

1. In a strange land one should always move near one’s kinsmen.
2. In good times friends know you and in bad times you know them.
3. In the absence of water lizards can claim to be crocodiles.
4. Innocence can be an offence.
5. Instead of being near a pagan you rather be near an animal.
6. It costs you your good spirit to steal than buying or seeking.

671.                      It doesn’t matter how slowly you walk, just as long as you don’t stop.

1. It is a foolish fly that is buried with a corpse.
2. It is a man with a harp who should decide how he is going to sleep.
3. It is a person suffering from cold who will first think of closing the door.
4. It is a stupid dog that barks at an elephant.
5. It is a surprise that the cock should hold a grudge against the pot, instead

                  of the knife that killed it.

1. It is better to walk fast than to grow angry at the forest.
2. It is childish to remain in a hole when you can take yourself out.
3. It is difficult for two long-nosed lovers to kiss.
4. It is easier to carry an empty cup than one that is filled to the brim.
5. It is easier to catch a bird at night than day.
6. It is from listening to old men that you learn wisdom.
7. It is hard even for the most selfish man to eat fish in the darkness.
8. It is impossible to tie a knot without the thumb.
9. It is in the eyes of a lazy man that maize will ripen.
10. It is in the house of a coward that people gather and point to the tomb of

                  yesterday’s warrior.

1. It is not by watching a newly wed wife that she is going to become

                  pregnant.

1. It is not right to ask a man with elephantiasis of the scrotum to take on

                  small pox as well, when thousands of other people have not had even their
                        share of small diseases.

1. It is not the lamb that should go and ask the lion if it has had dinner.
2. It is not the things in the soup that I am afraid of but perhaps the person I

                  am eating with.

1. It is odd for a dog to look unconcerned when a sheep is barking at a

                  stranger.

1. It is only a fool who says when he can’t walk, ‘lets run’.
2. It is only a mad dog that barks at a flying bird.
3. It is only a stupid cow that rejoices at the prospect of being taken to a

                  beautiful abattoir.

1. It is only the eagle that can give an account of the whisper of the cloud.
2. It is only the early risers who succeed in filling their baskets with white

                  ants.
 

1. It is only the foolish cock that believes the sun won’t rise if he doesn’t

                  crow.

1. It is only when you look down that you can see your nose.
2. It is possible to kill a man but it is impossible to kill his name.
3. It is the absence of a cat that allowed the rat to climb onto the table.
4. It is the cloth of an orphan that is often given to the guest.
5. It is the spirit that walks a person through darkness.
6. It is the traveller who carries the news.
7. It is unwise for one to think that a hen will ever be accorded respect in the

                  land of the hawks.

1. It is when one holds the sacrificial lamb that he begins to seek the gods.
2. It may take a lot of time to fabricate a lie but the truth only takes seconds

                  to elevate.

1. It requires a lot of carefulness to kill a fly that touches on the scrotum.
2. It s the discontented fish that envies the solely bird.
3. It takes a breast for a child to know it’s mother and it takes a mother for a

                  child to know its father.

1. It takes a season for a snake to change into its new skin.
2. It will be fool’s hardy for the ant to chase an elephant.
3. If you stoop to see your neighbour’s anus, then your own anus is wide

                  open for others to see, even more easily and clearly.

1. It’s a friend who gives you advice.
2. It’s always hard to convince a hungry person.
3. It’s better fast than later.
4. It’s better not to rise at all than to rise and fall.
5. It’s better to ask than to steal.
6. It’s better to be punished for telling the truth than to be rewarded for

                  saying lies.

1. It’s better to break than to bend.
2. It’s better to eat a mushroom in freedom than to eat meat in slavery.
3. It’s better to eat pepper and be happy than to eat honey and be sad.
4. It’s better to fall from a tree and a break your back than to fall in love and

                  break your heart.

1. It’s better to flee danger and be laughed at than to face danger and be

                  mourned.

1. It’s better to know yourself that someone to tell you who you’re.
2. It’s better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
3. It’s better to live with a dumb person than a liar.
4. It’s evil to give meat to those who do not eat meat.
5. It’s much easier to fall in love than to stay in love.
6. It’s not the aroma of the soup that tells you whether it’s sweet or not, but

                  it’s the tongue’s taste.

1. It’s not the monkey on top that make a tree fall but it’s the work and effort

                  of numerous small insects and ants.

1. It’s only a dead man who has everybody on his side.
2. It’s only the ant that hears the whispers of the sand.
3. It’s only when you aim at one spot that your urine foams.
4. It’s out of ignorance that a goat will attend a leopard’s party.
5. It’s the big birds that teach the young ones to flight.
6. It’s the orator’s wit to make a story appear old.
7. It’s the tortoise’s shell, ugly and hard that protects its life long journey on

                  earth.

1. It’s the young trees that make up the forest.
2. It’s those ugly caterpillars that turn into beautiful butterflies after seasons. 
3. It’s too late to fatten a cow on the market day.
4. It’s unworthy to dig a new pit to fill up an old one.
5. It’s useless to tell a river to stop running; the best thing is to learn how to

                  swim in the direction it’s flowing.

1. It’s wise to do what you’re born to do.
2. Its better to stumble with your feet than to stumble with your mouth.
3. Judge not your beauty by the number of people who look at you, but rather

                  by the number of people who smile at you.

1. Keep your friends close but remember to keep your enemies closer.
2. Kindness is a language, which the blind can see and the deaf can hear.
3. Kings beget kings.
4. Kinship is like tough gourds when they knock each other they never break.
5. Knowledge is better than wealth, you have to look after wealth, but

                  knowledge looks after you.

1. Knowledge is like a garden, if you don’t cultivate it you cannot harvest it.
2. Knowledge without wisdom is like water without sand.
3. Language is not plain.
4. Laughter does wonders for the heart.
5. Let us be glad to those who make us happy for their gods who make our

                 souls happy.

1. Life is a teacher.
2. Life is like a boat you move on when you paddle and stay in the same

                  place if not.

1. Life is like a mirror if you fawn it, it fawns back and if you smile, it

                 smiles.

1. Life is like riding a bicycle; you don’t fall off unless you stop pedalling.
2. Life is like shopping in a market; when you finish, you go home.
3. Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.
4. Life is the beginning of death.
5. Life is vanity.
6. Life is what you make it.
7. Life is your ability to breath out every time you breathe in.
8. Life without battle is life without victory.
9. Like a person, even the moon grows and vanishes in a transitional process.
10. Listening is the most difficult skill to learn and the most important to have.
11. Living near a lake doesn’t mean you eat fish whenever you need.
12. Looking at a king’s mouth, one would never think he sucked from his

                  mother’s breast.

1. Love begets love.
2. Love is a painkiller.
3. Love is in blood not in talking.
4. Love is like cough you can’t hold it back.
5. Love never gets lost it’s only kept.
6. Maize cannot get justice in a chicken’s court.
7. Maize grows well where people have no teeth.
8. Man invented language to satisfy is deep need to complain.
9. Man’s goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.
10. Man’s greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.
11. Many hens may be in love with one cock, but none will be jealous of the

                 other.

1. Many rats never drill holes.
2. Men die but words live on.
3. Migration is a sign of protect.
4. Milk and honey have different colours, but they share the same house

                  peacefully.

1. Minds are like parachutes; they only function when they are open.
2. Money is like the waters of a sailing river it flows away.
3. Monkeys don’t advise there young ones to be careful on trees they just

                  remind them of the distance to the ground.

1. Morning is the start of a day’s work.
2. Move like a chameleon, look in front, and watch behind.
3. Music and women should not be dated.
4. Music speaks louder than words.
5. Negotiate with your enemy whilst you are a strong and formidable force,

                 and he will always fear and respect you, but negotiate at the brink of
                 defeat, and he will trample you down.

1. Never blame a messenger.
2. Never dump your old pot just because you have bought a new one.
3. Never insult your enemy while you’re laying down unless there is

                  someone else standing by.

1. Never let a friend lie in your sheep farm he might get hungry.
2. Never let a handshake pass the elbow.
3. Never lose heart because whatever is hot must in the end turn cold.
4. Never mock a fowl with raffled feathers it might have won a fight.
5. Never travel with a friend who disserts you at the notice of danger.
6. Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
7. Nicknames are the hardest stones the devil can throw at a man.
8. No cloth can be better than your skin.
9. No goal is unachievable.
10. No man can outwit the ancestors.
11. No man is a hero to his debtors.
12. No matter how angry a rat may be it will be eaten by a cat.

809.                      No matter how beautiful and well crafted a coffin might look, it will not
                  make anyone wish for death.

1. No matter how big a child is, he cannot deny that he was once carried on

                  the back of a woman.

1. No matter how big the butterfly may be, it cannot be called a bat.
2. No matter how close the ear is to the eye they can’t see each other.
3. No matter how tough the current of a river may be it is the calabash that

                  triumphal over the river.

1. No matter how far you are from your house, you will keep going until you

                  get home.

1. No matter how far you have walked in the wrong direction certainly you

                  have to turn back and take the right direction.

1. No matter how fast a man can run, he can never chase his shadow and

                 catch it.

1. No matter how good a hunting dog is it cannot kill a leopard.
2. No matter how high the bird flies, a hunter sets is trap on the ground.
3. No matter how high the vulture may choose to soar, the eagle will remain

                 king of the sky.

1. No matter how hot your anger may be it cannot cook.
2. No matter how huge a hook may be it cannot catch fish in a river.
3. No matter how hungry the vulture, it will never eat grass.
4. No matter how kind a man might be he cannot accept to share his wife.
5. No matter how long a bird lives in a cage, it will always want to escape.
6. No matter how long a fallen tree stays in the river it can never be a

                 crocodile.

1. No matter how long a stick may stay in a river, it will never change into

                 fish.

1. No matter how long and winding the road might be, it will always lead

                  you to your destination.

1. No matter how much you feed a lizard it cannot become a crocodile.
2. No matter how often a man quarrels with his wife he doesn’t do so during

                  the hours lending to bedtime.

1. No matter how old you may be the future will always be ahead of you.
2. No matter how painful the loss, the bereaved won’t be buried with the

                 corpse.

1. No matter how poor a village, there is always one rich man.
2. No matter how powerful a man, he cannot make the rains fall on his farm

                 alone.

1. No matter how rich a man may be he cannot sleep on two beds at ago.
2. No matter how sharp a knife is, it can never cut its handle.
3. No matter how sharp your teeth are, you can’t bite water.
4. No matter how short a man is, he will always see the sky.
5. No matter how small a pin can be a hen cannot swallow it.
6. No matter how tall a camel is, it will never get taller than the hair on its

                 back.

1. No matter how tall a tree might grow it will always shed its leaves on the

                 ground.
 

1. No matter how tight a monkey’s trousers are, there is always space for his

                 tail.

1. No matter how well tamed a lion, it will one day go back to the bush.
2. No matter how wise you are, you cannot trace footsteps in water.
3. No matter how black a cow is the milk is always white.
4. No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails.
5. No pestle can be bigger than its mortar.
6. No sin goes unpunished.
7. No sweat, no sweet.
8. Not all men who walk in the street naked are crazy.
9. Not all the baboons that enter a maize field come out satisfied.
10. Not everything on the body that swells is a boil.
11. Not everything that glitters is gold or diamond.
12. Nothing on earth is greedier than the eye.
13. Of what good is giving birth when later there regrets of disrespect.
14. Old men and women in the village are books of history and wisdom.
15. On the day a monkey dies, all the trees are slippery.
16. Once bitten by a snake you feel suspicious even when you see a piece of

                  rope.

1. Once the teeth are together they can crack the bone.
2. Once you’ve started a competition, you must carry it to the finish.
3. One can see it but must not say, when the master of a house passes excreta

                  in a pot.

1. One cannot put out fire with fire.
2. One day cannot make an elephant rot.
3. One decade is long enough to change the looks of mountains and rivers.                                       
4. One doesn’t call a hyena to displine a troublesome goat.
5. One finger cannot wash the whole face.
6. One man’s meat is another man’s pet.
7. One only realises the importance of a well when the water dries up.
8. One who carries a pot of honey doesn’t envy the sugarcane farmer.
9. One who causes others misfortune also teaches them wisdom.
10. One who eats alone cannot discuss the taste of the food with others.
11. One who said ‘I know everything’ built a house without a door.
12. One with more firewood than you, has more ash than you.
13. Only a fool will use both his legs to test how deep a spring is.
14. Only a goat that is tired of life invites a lion to dinner.
15. Only a knife can best tell a child when to  leave it.
16. Only a patient man can milk a lioness.
17. Only a well-taught groom deserves a bride.
18. Only birds with long beaks can drink from deep pots.
19. Only the person who wears the shoe feels it when it pitches.
20. Only those who do nothing never make a mistake.
21. Open your ears to the ancestors and you will understand the language of

                  spirits.

1. Optimism is a mania for saying all is well when one is in hell.
2. Ours is ours, but mine is mine.
3. Pain is inevitable suffering is optional.
4. Patience over wins a lot of ill.
5. People are like chameleons; circumstances make them change their colour.
6. People who drink to drown their sorrows, should be told that sorrow

                 knows how to swim.

1. Praise of the moon the god.
2. Pray for good harvest, but keep on hoeing.
3. Pregnancy could not be covered with the hand.
4. Problems come in threes.
5. Wise sayings are men.
6. Quiet people are like still water their deep.
7. Regrets are much like grandchildren; they come much later.
8. Remember the wisdom of your ancestors in order to become wise.
9. Remember your ancestors because you’re not better than them.
10. Removing a peace of yam from the pot of yam doesn’t stop the rest from

                 cooking.

1. Roaring lions kill no prey.
2. Running water can never jump over a hole in the ground.
3. Sanity is the playground for the unimaginative.
4. Search for a friend with no faults and you will remain with no friends.
5. Shame to the house where the hen crows and the cock is silent.

 

1. She is beautiful; she has love, understands; she respects herself and others;

                  everyone likes, loves and honours her; she is a goddess.

1. She who gives birth to triplets cannot ask for a third breast.
2. She who grinds millet should have wisdom about rainy clouds and winds.
3. Silence brings wisdom of the ancestors.
4. Slashing isn’t digging nor is digging called sowing.
5. Society is like a pot it can’t carry water when its broken.
6. Soldiers don’t cry.
7. Some birds are not meant to be caged there feathers are to blight and there

                 meant to fly.

1. Someone who doesn’t listen to others deserves not to be listened too.
2. Someone who wants everything looses everything.
3. Something that doesn’t talk how does it refuse.
4. Something you think that is nice when you get into contact with it, it

                  seizes to be nice.

1. Sometimes a lie is kinder than a truth.
2. Sometimes the face can tell what the lips can’t say.
3. Sometimes the spirits speaks for you and sometimes the spirits makes you

                  speak.

1. Sometimes you need to die in order to live again.
2. Sorrow may sadden your face but it sharpens your understanding.
3. Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
4. Students are the only consumers who do not want what they pay for.
5. Success in life largely depends on how you handle your failures.
6. Success is a ladder which cannot be climbed with hands in your pocket.
7. Sudden frightening occurrence knows no brave person.
8. Sunshine always follows a dark night.
9. Sweetness attracts more flies than sourness.
10. Take what you need and leave our land the way you found it.
11. Talking is cheap until you hire a lawyer to do it for you.
12. Teaching a monkey to eat with a fork and knife will never make it a man.
13. Tears cannot bring you joy but joy can bring you tears.
14. Tears never flow in the house of a coward.
15. Tears will not stop flowing for someone who is crying for himself.
16. Teenagers act like babies if they are not treated like adults.
17. Tell your friend a lie, if he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.
18. That what comes to stay has come it cannot return.
19. That which got bent while growing when you straighten it, it breaks.
20. That which is about to die doesn’t hear the drum beating.
21. That you don’t give birth too, you let him or her carry a stone on the head.
22. That you eat in the morning passes you through the day.
23. The ancestors may annoy you but don’t make a mistake of annoying them

                  back, they may annoy you forever.

1. The animal hide can best be straightened and smoothened when still fresh.
2. The animal that escapes the hunter’s spear is only allowed to go.
3. The ant that destroys a kola nut lives inside it.
4. The antics of a market buffoon provide laughter, but nobody prays that his

                  child becomes the market buffoon.

1. The arrow that missed the head of its target will never hit the tail.
2. The attacks of a wild beast cannot be averted with only bare hands.
3. The beauty of a woman becomes useless if there is no one to admire it.
4. The bee that carries honey in its mouth carries a sting in its tail.
5. The best dancer comes from the sitting lounge.
6. The best mirror of all is an old friend.
7. The best preparation for tomorrow is to make sure today’s work is

                  superbly done.

1. The best way to catch a bird is not by scaring it away.
2. The bird is up in the sky but its eyes are on the ground.
3. The bird, which flaps its wings too much, will drop its feathers.
4. The black cow doesn’t give black milk.
5. The blight ness of the moon can only be experienced in total darkness.
6. The blind man would like to show the way to others.
7. The brave man is not he who doesn’t feel afraid, but he who conquers that

                  fear.

1. The bravery of a lion doesn’t protect it from the spear of a hunter.
2. The bubbling flames are not fire.
3. The buffalo’s shit is dry on top when inside its wet.
4. The buried do not give birth.

 

1. The buttocks are like a married couple though there is constant friction

                  between them; they will still love and live together.

1. The canary that dances along the bush path must have its drummer in the

                  nearby bush.

1. The cat may look like a lion, but that does not make it a lion.
2. The ceiling won’t stay when the room is no longer there.
3. The cheapest way to improve your looks is to wear a smile.
4. The cheapest way to win a person is by a smile.
5. The chicken that sits along the road to eat shall never enjoy a good meal.
6. The cock belongs to one household, but when it crows it is heard in the

                  whole village.

1. The cock that loses its pace time of cockadoodle should be dressed

                  otherwise it will misguide you.

1. The cockroach cannot be innocent in a court where the hen is judge.
2. The cocks that cockadoodle were once eggs.
3. The coffin seller wants a long life for himself and a short life for others.
4. The cow engenders the man.
5. The cow with no tail can only depend on goats to rid himself of flies.
6. The danger that threatens the hunting dog, threatens the hunter too.
7. The darkest hour is before dawn.
8. The dead are among us.
9. The dead man doesn’t know the value of his coffin.
10. The death of a man doesn’t make his wives men.
11. The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
12. The dog never minds not to laugh.
    
13. The downfall of a man is not the end of his life.
14. The downfall of man begins with pride.
15. The drum is the favourite instrument of the spirits.
16. The eggshell cannot be a mother of its resultant offspring.
17. The evil everyone does lives after him or her.
18. The eye cannot bear loads yet it can tell heavy objects from light ones.
19. The eye is not harmed by sleep.
20. The eye looking at the sun will not need an adviser before it blinks.
21. The eye of a snake is big but no one can put is finger on it.
22. The eyes that beheld the chief don’t fear for a court official.
23. The eyes that have seen the ocean cannot be satisfied by a mere lagoon.
24. The fall of a dead leaf is a warning to the green ones.
25. The fish starts to rot from the head.
26. The fish that dirties the water will forever swim in dirty water.
27. The fly had life even before the dog had its wounds.
28. The forest not only hides man’s enemies but its full of man’s medicine,

                  healing power and food.

1. The fox must be chased away first after that the hen might be warned

                  against wandering into the bush.

1. The frog likes water but not when it’s boiling.
2. The frowning face of a goat doesn’t prevent it being taken to market.
3. The fruits of a tree on the roadside are never eaten ripe.
4. The ghosts gossip among each other.
5. The goat eats where it’s tethered.
6. The gourd that never leaves the boozing centre attains cracks.
7. The gourd’s neck cannot be straightened in it’s old age, it can only be

                  broken.

1. The grass may be greener on the other side, but it is just as difficult to cut.
2. The grave only calls those death loves.
3. The great tree chooses where to grow and we find it there, so it is with the

                  greatness in men.

1. The greatest crime in a desert is to find water and keep silent about it.
2. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
3. The greatest truth is the simplest one.
4. The greatness of man’s male organ don’t call it an hydro cell.
5. The grindstones can neither be used as a stool nor a headrest.
6. The hand that tied the lion knows best how to untie it.
7. The happy man rises with the sun.
8. The heart doesn’t wear rags.
9. The hen doesn’t have breasts, but she can still feed her chicks.
10. The hen knows that dawn has arrived but it leaves the duty of crowing to

                  the cock.

1. The homeowner doesn’t eat a little.
2. The horns cannot be too heavy for the cow that bears them.
   
3. The hottest music and dance always comes from home.
4. The house rat who goes swimming with his friend the lizard will die from

                  cold.

1. The insect that eats the leaf is under the leaf.
2. The kite in the skies doesn’t feed on clouds.
3. The kola nut stays longer in the mouths of those who value it.
4. The length of the rope determines the movement of the goat.
5. The leopard that covers its black spots with hamaton dust solution will

                  truly be exposed when the rain season comes.

1. The life of a groundnut lies between two shells.
2. The light of a thousand stars doesn’t equal the light of the moon.
3. The lion may be king of the jungle but he knows, he shouldn’t stand in the

                  way of the elephant.

1. The madman, who throws a stone into a crowded market, forgets that his

                  own mother could be hit by his madness.

1. The man who counts the bits of food he swallows is never satisfied.
2. The man, who eats alone, dies alone.
3. The mind of a fool is like a broken pot it will hold no wisdom.
4. The monkey and gorilla may claim kinship, but the monkey is a monkey

                  and the gorilla is a gorilla.

1. The monkey is a good boxer, but his hands are short.
2. The more mistakes you make the fewer mistakes there left to make.
3. The most horrible sight on earth cannot put out the eye.
4. The mouth does not know limitations of its master.
5. The mouth is stupid after eating it forgets who gave it the food.
6. The mouth that eats should not talk, for it risks swallowing a fly.
7. The mouth that speaks a lot is liable to hunt a friend.
8. The nail that sticks out is the one that gets hammered down.
9. The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.
10. The noise produced by frogs in the well can’t stop an elephant from

                  drinking.

1. The okra plant doesn’t grow taller than its planter.
2. The old lady feels uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.
3. The one chased away with a stick comes back and the one chassed away

                  with reason doesn’t come back.

1. The one who hasn’t strength to pound yams pretends to drive away flies

                  from the yams.

1. The one who is not wrestling says throw him down and we go.
2. The one who knows the way to the cemetery carries the tail end of the

                  coffin.

1. The one who shows off himself in every place will one day search for

                  Where to hide.

1. The one who sleeps in his room knows where it is leaking.
2. The one who went to the in-laws got trapped in a thorn tree.
3. The one who wrestles with a big man will soon wear himself out.
4. The one you minimise could be eating meat everyday.
5. The opinion of the intelligent is better than the certainty of the ignorant.
6. The palm-wine we drink, some people can drink it and remain wise; others

                  lose all their senses.

1. The person who is coming from the bowels of the earth doesn’t despise

                  even the smallest amount of sunshine.

1. The person you know during daytime should also be recognisable during

                  night time.

1. The person you put on your back is one who bites you.
2. The persons we eat with are the ones  to kills us.
3. The power of a leopard resides in its claws.
4. The problem with the palace attendant isn’t how to steal the king’s drums

                  but where to play them from.

1. The queen ant feeds on its own ants.
2. The rabbit that dances on the broken branch of a high tree must look down
   

                  to see how many mouths are opened wide beneath.

1. The radiate sun reflections and lightening cannot make a blind person see.
2. The raised hand cares not for its own recognition, but for that of the body

                  below.

1. The restless grasshopper only finds rest in the gizzard of a bird.
2. The rich have no heart, the lake never floats a pin.
3. The road to success is always under construction.
4. The rope that hangs a monkey, hangs a baboon as well.
5. The roughness of a cotton tree is not known until you get close to it. 
6. The same sun that melts the wax hardens the clay.
7. The same teeth that a dog uses to play it uses to bite too.
8. The sayings of the wise are like the sharp sticks that shepherds use to

                  guide sheep.

1. The secret of success is to start from scratch.
2. The shortest distance between two people is a smile.
3. The sky is wide enough for two birds to fly without their wings touching.
4. The smoke caused by meat which is roasted does not cause pain in the

                  eyes of a hungry person.

1. The song sang by men when going to hunt is not the same song they sing

                  when they come back.

1. The soul would have no rainbow if the  eyes didn’t have tears.
2. The spirits are the strength and counsel to the living.
3. The start of weeping is always hard.
4. The strength of a man can’t be determined by is size.
5. The strength of the wolf is in the pack, the strength of the pack is in the

                  wolf.

1. The strong will always rule, it’s only a question of the content of the

                   strength.

1. The strongest man on earth is he who stands alone.
2. The strongest person among men is not he who fights everyone but is he

                  who controls is anger.
 

1. The sun will shine on those who are standing before it shines on those who

                  are sitting.

1. The sweet flying ants will never be birds.
2. The sweetness of a kola nut doesn’t lie in its sugar content.
3. The tears of a man flow into the stomach.
4. The teeth that cannot move in unison cannot bit a piece of meat.
5. The teeth that stink together are the ones to bite the meat.
6. The tiger that prowls quietly doesn’t mean it’s intimidated.
7. The time to make friends is before you need them.
8. The time to slap a king is the time when a fly touches on his cheek.
9. The time you wake up is your morning.
10. The tongue can be so sweet but when the hands are too tough.
11. The tongue is not statically smooth.
12. The tooth is a fool because it smiles to whom it even dislikes.
13. The tortoise said it wants to box, but its hand is too short.
14. The tongue weighs practically nothing, but so few people can hold it.
15. The two hardest things in life to handle are success and failure.
16. The visitor who goes away without eating never comes back.
17. The voice that comes to borrow is more humble than the voice that comes

                   to sake payment.

1. The voices of the ancestors are the voices of the gods.
2. The water in your well can be very hot, but it will never cook your rice.
3. The way a cat walks is not the way it catches a rat.
4. The weed that grows by the riverbank will not suffer the effect of draught.
5. The white ant is small but it creates the great anthill.
6. The wind that carried the mortar will not fail to carry the pestle.
7. The wise create proverbs for fools to learn, not to repeat.
8. The words of the elders do not lock all the doors, they leave the right door

                  open.

1. The words of the wise become sweet the day after.
2. The words you say to tell the truth are as important as the decision to be

                  truthful.

1. The world about us.
2. The world has changed dramatically.
3. The world is story.
4. The worm that exposes itself on the ground is waiting for a lucky bird to

                  devour it.

1. The worst person doesn’t lack some good deeds.
2. The worst you can do to truth is to cloth it in lies, you can’t undo it.
3. There are many colourful flowers on the path of life, but the prettiest have

                  the sharpest thorns.

1. There are no short cuts to the top of a palm tree.
2. There are no witnesses to a dream.
3. There is a good reason why natural water never runs at night.
4. There is a wise reason why a cock can’t sound like a turkey.
5. There is always a winner even in a monkey’s beauty contest.
6. There is always one bull of the kraal.
7. There is no day that goes without the moon and no day that goes without

                  sunrise and sunset.

1. There is no need to point out the obvious.
2. There is no point in living if we cannot take back our culture.
3. There is no smoke without fire.
4. There is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing. 
5. There is no venom like that of the tongue.
6. There is no virgin in a maternity ward.
7. There is no way you can pour water into a basket and expect the water to

                  remain.

1. They laugh at you when your going but when you came back with a load

                  they’re a shamed.

1. Think like a winner and you will be one.
2. Those who make friendship with a club shouldn’t expect a good

                  handshake.

1. Those at piece, work for it.
2. Those who are opposed to terrorism should not terrorise others.
3. Those who do not forgive break the bridge on which they have to pass.
4. Those who get their kola nut cracked by the spirit should not forget to be

                  humble.

1. Those who give birth to nincompoop it’s not their wish.
2. Those who have friends in the kitchen don’t starve.
3. Those who have not crossed the river yet should not laugh at those who

                  are drowning.

1. Those who judge before they know the facts will learn to shed tears.
2. Those who master to climb trees with their teeth are in better position to

                  tell which barks are bitter.

1. Those who move are the ones who see the lion’s footprints.
2. Those who never protect the values of their ancestors their soul will never

                  rest peacefully.

1. Those who part from there homeland part with there all life.
2. Those who think there too big to do little things are perhaps to small to do

                  big things.

1. Those who walk slowly reach a far, hence to hurry is not worth.
2. Though the sky belongs to the bird it can’t fly when it’s raining.
3. Thunder cannot make a deaf person hear.
4. Time heals all wounds.
5. Time is a healer.
6. Time is a teacher.
7. Time lost is lost forever.
8. To a man who only has a hammer in his tool kit, every problem looks like

                  a nail.

1. To be able to love other people you must be able to love yourself.
2. To be an ancestral believer is to be a good ancestor.
3. To be precautious doesn’t mean fear phobia.
4. To cut off the head is no remedy for the headache.
5. To handle yourself use your head to handle others use your heart.
6. To love that one who never loves you is like rain falling in the forest.
7. To neglect one’s ancestors would bring ill-fortune and failure in life.
8. To remove a fly from a friend’s forehead never use a hatchet.
9. To suffer doesn’t mean to die.
10. To travel is to see, to return is to talk.
11. To whom to much is given we require too much from him.
12. Too many cooks, cooking at the same time makes the day take long to

                  break.

1. Too much happiness brings tears in our eyes.
2. Tortoises only make progress when they stick there necks out.
3. Tough times don’t last, tough people do.
4. Train a child the way he should go and make sure you also go the same

                  way.

1. Travel makes one a stranger.
2. Troubles are like babies: the more they are nursed, the better they grow.
3. True love means what’s mine is yours.
4. Truth and morning become light with time.
5. Truth cannot be hidden forever beneath evil.
6. Truth is like fire it cannot be hidden under dry leaves.
7. Truth is the first victim of war.
8. Two cats can never be equal; one will always be bigger than the other.
9. Two rams cannot drink from the same bucket at the same time; they will

                  lock horns.

1. United we are a rock, divided we are sand.
2. Unless the broken tooth is thrown out the mouth will continue to chew

                  with caution.

1. Until a crab finds itself in a very hot pot of soup, it will never understand

                  that water can be both cold and hot.

1. Until the rotten tooth is pulled out cautiously, the mouth will not have rest.
2. Until the snake is dead do not drop the stick.
3. Use people who have something to gain, not people with nothing to lose.
4. Used recklessly then s/he must have inherited the misused property.
5. Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.
6. Villages that posses culture will never perish even though they may be

                  small.

1. Vision quest should be continuous.
2. War is a bad chisel with which to curve out tomorrow.
3. Wars are created by people to old to fight for those to young to die.
4. Water from another man’s calabash tests differently.
5. Water is colourless and tasteless but you can live on it longer than eating

                 food.

1. We shall not give the hyena twice.
2. Well-timed silence is the most commanding __expression.

 

1. What comes from the lips reaches the ears, what comes from the heart

                  reaches the heart.

1. What grows quickly, dies quickly.
2. What is in a heart of a sober man is on the tongue of a drunkard.
3. What is in the yams that a knife doesn’t know.
4. What is sweet in a fools mouth will surely finish is money.
5. What is tightly rapped is known by only the rapper.
6. What kills a calf comes from the udder.
7. What makes a fool excited now a wise person had heard before and isn’t

                  excited.

1. What makes a sheep blit loudly the goat had already seen before.
2. What makes up an anthill is the effort and order of determined and

                  organised termites.

1. What never kills a herdsman never takes away his cattle.
2. What our husband says is what we also say.
3. What the elders see while sitting the young ones standing on their toes

                  won’t see.

1. What the gods keep for the poor, no man can destroy.
2. What we do with pity another would call it strength.
3. What we get takes away our troubles.
4. What will kill a dog first blocks its nose.
5. What you cook with dislike is what your bound to eat.
6. What you do with injustice often backfires.
7. What you eat now comes out later.
8. What you help a child to love can be more important than what you help

                  him to learn.

1. What you learn is what you die with.
2. What you may call small another will call it big.
3. Eating what you plant is better than begging for leftovers.
4. Whatever nourished the goat until it grew a beard will continue to sustain

                  him.

1. When a blind man is happy he gives money to his child to buy kerosene

                  for his lamp.
1232.                  When a blind man tells you he is going to throw a stone, know that his
                  foot is on the stone.

1. When a cat wants to eat its own kitten it accuses them of smelling like

                  rats.

1. When a chick ignores its mother’s warning, the eagle grasps it for a meal.
2. When a child is asleep a mother’s attention is on the child’s stomach.
3. When a cock invites a cockroach for a birthday party, he has prepared

                 dinner for himself.

1. When a cow is crying, a dog is making a party.
2. When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.
3. When a cricket is quiet, it is digging.
4. When a four-year child is still crawling instead of walking it is time to cry

                  out.

1. When a lion cannot find the flesh to feed on, it has no choice but to eat the

                  grass.

1. When a lion runs and looks back, its not that he is afraid, rather he is

                  trying to see the distance he has covered.

1. When a man cheats on you once, shame on him, when he cheats on you

                  twice, shame on you.

1. When a man curses his own child it is a terrible thing.
2. When a bee stings a man, he doesn’t set off to destroy all beehives.
3. When a man raises his voice at home, know that he started lowering if

                  elsewhere.

1. When a monkey doesn’t get a banana, he eats chillies.
2. When a naked person promises you cloth beware.
3. When a new saying gets to the land of empty men they lose their heads

                  over it.

1. When a rat mocks a cat then you know there is a hole nearby.
2. When a rat swims with a frog, it dies of cold.
3. When a single grass falls from a grass-thatched house it doesn’t leak.
4. When a slippery ground lies ahead do not laugh at those who have fallen.
5. When a stiff-necked bull stands with its four legs planted firmly and

                  refuses to move, you cannot make it go ahead only by pulling it by the
                  reins and using your whip.

1. When a stone is identified it cannot destroy a hoe.

 

1. When a tortoise embarks on a journey he doesn’t ask for directions,

                  because he does not want his enemies to know where he’s going.

1. When all the water has gone, only the largest stones will remain on the

                  riverbed.

1. When an abomination has become of age it becomes a tradition.
2. When an elephant becomes as small as a monkey, it ceases to be an

                  elephant.

1. When an elephant eats and eats and still cries for more, it is the grass that

                  will get embarrassed.

1. When bad luck chooses you as a companion, even a ripe banana can

                  remove your teeth.

1. When cats are hairdressers, rats will always go around with uncombed

                  hair.

1. When kings lose direction they become servants.
2. When many trees fall on top of one another, a wise man removes the one

on top first.

1. When one finger is swollen it affects the others.
2. When one hand is injured the other nurses it, when both hands are injured

they nurse each other.

1. When one man’s curse falls on a person another one breaks it.
2. When one tries to shake a big tree, he ends up shaking himself.
3. When problems come they carry along with them all their relatives.
4. When problems visit a man it arrives with its own bed and table.
5. When riding on top of an elephant do not assume there is no dew in the

                  thicket.

1. When the bells are in water they can’t make any sound.
2. When the big drum is sounded the small drums keep silence.
3. When the bush is on fire the chameleon learns to run first.
4. When the buttocks foul the air it’s the head that gets knocked.
5. When the cock craws the heart of a debtor skips a bit. 
6. When the cockroach decides to make the cock its friend it must be ready

                  to end up in the cock’s stomach.

1. When the drummers change their beats the dancers must also change their

                  Steps.

1. When the eye sees you then your bound to go for duty.
2. When the head is big it cannot avoid punches.
3. When the head of a snake is cut off, the rest of his body is an ordinary

                  rope.

1. When the mother monkey leaves her baby to fall, one must not blame the

                 dried branch.

1. When the rain falls, it falls on both the freeborn and the slaves.
2. When the river dries up, we will all see where the crocodile sleeps.
3. When the shadow of a tree is bent, straighten the tree, not the shadow.
4. When the threads unite, they can tie the lion.
5. When there is a big tree, small ones climb on its back to reach the sun.

 

1. When there is a misunderstanding between the left leg and right leg the

                  entire body falls down.

1. When they told the wise goat that the butcher was dead, she asked:

                 ‘really? And is the butcher’s knife dead too?

1. When two ageing good friends fight, it’s because of an old grouch.
2. When two elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.
3. When vultures surround you, try not to die.
4. When water stays for long it stinks.
5. When you ask, you become a fool for a little while and when you don’t

                  ask you become a fool for the rest of your life.

1. When you chase a fellow man reserve the strength to switch you back

                  when he recharges and turns.

1. When you cry for rain, you cry for mud too.
2. When you fight fire with fire, somebody is going to get hurt.
3. When you give a friend a goat, you have to let go of the leash.
4. When you lose on the drum-beating if the gods, you lose on the rhythm

                  and pace of life.

1. When you plant a yam it produces another yam.
2. When you see a rat running in a fire then what it’s running away from is

                  hotter than fire.

1. When you’re a stranger in a land, if good comes to it may you have you

                  share and if bad comes let it go to the owners of the land who know what
                  gods should be appeased.

1. When you’re undressed then you’re ready for anything.
2. When your friend gives your wife an expensive present, it’s time to get

                  suspicious.

1. When your house is on fire you don’t choose who to help you put out the

                  fire.

1. When your leg is sinking your whole body should fill it.
2. When your opponents are you’re friends there must be problems ahead.
3. Whenever lightening strikes, everyone runs to cover his or her own head.
4. Whenever something stands, another thing stands besides it.
5. Where comes a great man he doesn’t come alone.
6. Where God boils his yam that is exactly where the devil roasts his fish.
7. Where many are gathered, there is much to be said.
8. Where rain has ever been trapped before when it rains again it will get

                  trapped once again.

1. Where the heart sleeps is where you’re bound to go at dawn.
2. Where the rain falls there is no hunger.
3. Where the young know, is where they believe it’s raining.
4. Where there are no fools, there would be no wise men.
5. Where there is a crippled don’t imitate is disability.
6. Where there is a frog, the snake is not far away.
7. Where there is life there is hope.
8. Where you’ve ever left without a quarrel is where you’re about to return.
9. Where you killed from is not where you eat from.
10. Where you won’t feast from, you sense it sooner than later.
11. Where your mother is born, you can’t call anyone a child.
12. Whether the egg crashes on the coconut or the coconut crashes on the egg,

                  it is the egg that suffers.

1. White ants can do no harm to a stone.
2. Whoever rides on the lion’s back must surely end up in the lion’s stomach.
3. Whoever stands in need of honey should not be afraid of bees.
4. Why take away something by force which you can obtain by love.
5. Why they like an ugly person it takes long for a beautiful person to know

                  it.

1. Wine is not for the wrenched.
2. Wine is the drunkard’s blanket.
3. Wisdom is like a baobab tree, no one individual can embrace it.
4. Wisdom is like a good skin bag every man carries his own.
5. With a little seed of imagination you can grow a field of hope.
6. With time an egg will walk.
7. Without impalas and hyenas, the lion cannot be the king of the jungle.
8. Words are like arrows throw them only when you know where they will

                 fall.

1. Worry is like a rocking chair it swings you back and forth and it takes you

                  nowhere.

1. You always learn a lot more when you lose than when you win.
2. You always pick the fruits of what you plant.
3. You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.
4. You ask for the ancestors’ help and then help yourself.
5. You can beat a fool half to death but you can’t beat the foolishness out of

                  him.           

1. You can hide wine in a gourd but not in the belly.
2. You can kill a man’s identity on earth but you cannot kill is spirit.
3. You can leave without a friend but never without a neighbour.
4. You can never sow rice and expect to harvest maize.
5. You can out run that which is running after you but not that that’s running

                  inside of you.

1. You can see the fowl’s innerness when the wind is blowing.
2. You can share the same bed but you can’t share the same dream.
3. You can stay a thousand miles away from home and still see inside.
4. You can take a goat to the river, but you can’t make it drink the water.
5. You can teach other people how to learn other languages but you can’t

                  teach them how to govern themselves.

1. It is not worth telling a lovely story at the funeral.
2. You can’t become a teacher before your taught.
3. You can’t hide the smoke when the house is burning.
4. You can’t inject new ideas in a man’s head by cutting it off.
5. You can’t jump a swamp before you reach it.
6. You can’t lead anyone further than you have gone yourself.
7. You can’t measure a snake until it’s dead.
8. You can’t order a goat to eat the hyena.
9. You can’t spread a net to catch a bird that is watching you.
10. You can’t tell the colour of somebody’s cloth from his shadow.
11. You can’t walk before you can crawl.
12. You cannot amputate your genitals for being impotent.
13. You cannot beat a child to take away its tears.
14. You cannot blindfold a man and expect him to ferry you across the river.
15. You cannot climb a bid of success with your hands tied up.
16. You cannot dance without music though you can sing instrumentally

                  without dancing.

1. You cannot exchange peace for war.
2. You cannot expect me to carry you on my back and then you say my head

                  smells.

1. You cannot hide your nakedness from your bath bucket.
2. You cannot lean on air.
3. You cannot lock up science in one head.
4. You cannot name a child that is not born.
5. You cannot reject the head of a cow simply because the eye scares you.
6. You cannot send a goat to rescue a lamb from a loin’s attack.
7. You cannot stop birds from flying over your head, but you can stop them

                  nesting in your hair.

1. You cannot stop planting cereals just because birds are going to feast on

                  them.

1. You cannot win a lottery without buying a ticket.
2. You cannot work for food when there is no food for work.
3. You chew from one side of your mouth and keep the other side still.
4. You could destroy everything I have believed in and your father before

                  you and his father before you.

1. You do not verify from your mother the authenticity of what your

                  grandmother has told you.

1. You don’t become an expert in five days.
2. You don’t give someone a goat for a gift and still hold on to the rope.
3. You don’t have to climb the palm wine tree to drink palm wine.
4. You don’t have to lie down at the spot where your enemy has thrown you.
5. You don’t have to tell the deaf that there is a stampede in the market.
6. You don’t punish a fish by throwing it in water.
7. You get what you deserve.
8. You have to heal the wound before it ignores the medicine.
9. You may as well die fighting the enemy than live exploited and be

                  persecuted by him.

1. You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
2. You may choose your friends but not your neighbours.
3. You may say the cassava in your mouth is bitter, but it is only looking at

                  the next one.

1. You never know a line is zigzag until you put a straight line against it.
2. You see this thing called blood there is nothing like it.
3. You should know what’s being cooked in the kitchen otherwise you might

                 eat a forbidden food.

1. You shouldn’t leave your own fire ablaze to go and put out your

                  neighbour’s fire.

1. You will never know the importance of the buttocks, until they develop a

                  boil.

1. You wouldn’t know how far the town is if you’ve been taken there.
2. Your brother’s pocket cannot keep your wealth.
3. Your feet will take you away from home but your stomach will bring you

                  back.

1. Your food is supposed to be your medicine and your medicine is supposed

                  to be your food.

1. Your greatest hope is your greatest fear.
2. Your mind is like a parachute; it only works when it’s open.
3. Your mother is the bodyguard of your father.
4. Your previous lies will contradict your future truths.
5. If your brother is rich it doesn’t mean you’re rich.
6. A lazy man plants on a mad bark as an excuse for not planting.
7. The one whose foot you heal kicks you with it.
8. No problem is settled until it is settled right.
9. Even if you’re rich, you cannot bury yourself.
10. You cannot cure a wound by striking it gently.
11. If you want to catch a black goat you make haste before it’s dark.
12. A bad wound deserves strong medicine.
13. A day you believe is not bad, is the one that becomes bad.
14. What is put in a basket before going to the market won’t be the same thing

                  returned in the basket.
1421                    A snake’s ears only listen to a stick.
1422                    He who pelts another with paddles asks for stones in return.
1423                    It is better to host a good stranger than a bad brother.
1424                    A king is like a lake, you can’t dispense him, otherwise, you risk drowning.
1425                    A lazy fly cannot have a taste of a fresh wound.
1426                    Silence cannot be misquoted.
1427                    If you fill your head with pride you will lack space for wisdom.