440 Swahili Proverbs / Page 13
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If you see something and say nothing, you will have nothing to suffer for.242.
If you see vessels afloat, remember that they have had to be built.243.
If you take of your clothes for water you must bathe.244.
If you throw a millipede you should throw away the stick you picked it up with.245.
If you want beauty, you must be injured.246.
If you want to eat pig, choose one which is fat.247.
It is better for the eyes to die than the heart.248.
It is better to build bridges than walls.249.
It is better to lose your eyes than to lose your heart.250.
It is not hard to nurse a pregnency, but it is hard to bring up a child.251.
Its nice throw a spear to a pig, but painful when thrown to you.252.
Joke, joke, discharges pus.253.
Kindness does not go rotten.254.
Kiss the hand you can not cut.255.
Leave well alone! You wont improve matters by going on tinkering.256.
Let a strong man pass.257.
Let the guest come so that the host may benifit.258.
Let us see then tell; hearing is not seeing.259.
Life can be understood backwards, but we live it forwards.260.
Little by little fills up the measure.