73 Bantu Proverbs / Page 3
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The cabin of a loved one is never too far away.42.
The earth is a beehive; we all enter by the same door but live in different cells.43.
The egg teaches the chicken how to breed.44.
The eye never forgets what the heart has seen.45.
The horizon will not disappear as you run towards it.46.
The hunter who always comes home with meat is a thief.47.
The insolence of shortness is to stretch itself big.48.
The judge also dies.49.
The most stupid chicken always challenges the wildcat.50.
The owner of the skin is the one to tan it.51.
The power of the crocodile is in the water.52.
The road doesn't tell the traveler what lies ahead.53.
The tortoise stores its wisdom in his shell.54.
The wise are as rare as eagles that fly high in the sky.55.
There are forty kinds of lunacy, but only one kind of common sense.56.
There is no return, worse luck; for could I return, I would foresee what has come into the country.57.
They are happy, the free men that have their fathers.58.
Visitors' footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick.59.
We celebrated at the wax door, and all the time the honeycomb was empty within.60.
What is not bitter is good to eat.