What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings they are so trite so threadbare that we can hardly bring our lips to utter them. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race and the man who orders his life according to their teaching cannot go far wrong.
Good to sell knowledge for labor honor for risk.
It is idle to swallow the cow and choke on the tail.
One hand washes the other.
One eye in the corner is sharper than two about the house.
Gray hair is a sign of age not of wisdom.
The unexpected always happens.
Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald.
When your mouth stumbles its worse than feet. Oji proverb
A kings son is no nobler than his company.
It matters less to a person where they are born than where they can live.
One may survive distress but not disgrace.
Things are not always what they seem.
All roads lead to Rome.
We hate delays by others but sometimes it makes us wise.
We hate delays by others but sometimes it makes us wise.
It is better to run back than run the wrong way.
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
A spoon does not know the taste of soup nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.
Eagles dont catch flies.
Eat and drink with your friends but do not trade with them.
The soul is not where it lives but where it loves.
If a man is destined to drown he will drown even in a spoonful of water.
When God throws the dice are loaded.
The end justifies the means.
Remain hungry but do not start begging.
The fatter the flea the leaner the dog.
There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with butter.
A full cup must be carried steadily.
No penny no paternoster.
Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.
That which is good is never finished. Sukuma Tanzania
What would a young cat do but eat mice?
The best mirror is an old friend.
Wish well be well.
If you wish to do a good deed consult no one.
He flees from the roaring lion to the crouching lion. Sechuana
If you cant go over you must go under.
If you’re born to be hanged then you’ll never be drowned.
Speak of the Devil and he appears.
Spare at the spigot and let out the bunghole.
Be just before youre generous.
If your cornfield is far from your house the birds will eat your corn. Pigmy proverb
It is the last straw that breaks the camel’s back.
Where theres a will theres a way.
You suffer from smoke produced by the firewood you fetched yourself. Luhya Kenya
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.
If a man deceives me once shame on him if he deceives me twice shame on me.
What a fool does in the end the wise do in the beginning.
One man’s loss is another man’s gain.
Do as you would be done by.
Many hands make light work.
Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings they are so trite so threadbare that we can hardly bring our lips to utter them. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race and the man who orders his life according to their teaching cannot go far wrong.
Without grace beauty is an unabated hook.
A good meal ought to begin with hunger.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
A blind mans wife needs no paint.
He who does not research has nothing to teach.
Tell the truth and then run.
Selfpraise is no recommendation.
He that has an ill name is half hanged.
A golden key can open any door.
If you put a silk dress on a goat he is a goat still.
Kissing goes by favour.