440 Swahili Proverbs / Page 9
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Had you known what bees eat, you would not have tasted the honey.162.
Happiness requires something to do, something to love and something to hope for.163.
Haste does not result in prosperity.164.
Haste has no blessing.165.
Haste is from the Devil.166.
Haste makes waste and waste makes want.167.
Have you changed into a cuttle-fish, you heap live embers on yourself?.168.
He laughs at scar who has received no wound.169.
He that does not fear a bull must be a bull himself.170.
He wanders around by day a lot, learns a lot.171.
He who asks for salt does so for his own cooking pot.172.
He who becomes blind in his old age does not lose his way.173.
He who boasts of his ancestry unduly will bring plenty of trouble upon himself.174.
He who climbs a ladder comes down again.175.
He who dances at home will be rewarded.176.
He who desires all, misses all.177.
He who desires to make something does not announce his intentions, just turns them into actions.178.
He who devours his neighbour's fowl, its foot prints will give him away.179.
He who digs a pit will fall into it himself.180.
He who dips his finger into honey does not dip it once.