440 Swahili Proverbs / Page 21
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When the head of the family dies, that family breaks up.402.
When tide is high, it ebbs.403.
When you are eating with a blind man, do not touch his hand.404.
When you are seized, hold on yourself.405.
When you go among one-eyed people, put out your own eye.406.
When you mention a snake, have a stick ready in your hand.407.
When you play with a lion, do not put your hand in its mouth.408.
When your Companion is being shaved, put water.409.
Where it slopes down is where it slopes up.410.
Where there are experts there will be no lack ot learners.411.
Where there are many fowls, millet is not scattered.412.
Where there are many people, there God is.413.
Where there are many there is much.414.
Where there are many, nothing goes wrong.415.
Where there are old people, nothing goes wrong.416.
Where there are plenty of trees there are no builders.417.
Where there is a will there is a way.418.
Where there is finery, there lies the snare.419.
Where there trees, there are no builders.420.
Where there's a will there's a way.