281 Kikuyu Proverbs / Page 5
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Kamau who is white becomes black.82.
Live men do not lack work.83.
Lying is the thief's stronghold.84.
Many people together lift up the 'ndiri'.85.
Me do not know hard firewood, but only lops people put aside hard tasks and devote themselves only to easy ones.86.
Meat has no choice morsel.87.
Men are equal whe they are going and walking.88.
Men do not know liberality.89.
Men have got quills.90.
Necessities never end.91.
No day dawns like another.92.
No evil, but only the good will last.93.
No married woman will have her white hair shaved at her mother's.94.
No partridge is small when it claws the soil.95.
No prepotent man will insult other people for two consecutive seasons.96.
No war has been fought by men carrying a calabash of 'njohi' but of 'ucuru'.97.
Nobody calls another's father 'dad'.98.
Nobody can see his own goodness: it can be seen only by others.99.
Nobody cares about other people's poverty.100.
Nobody cries that has not been pinched.