281 Kikuyu Proverbs / Page 12
221. The woman whose sons have died is richer than a barren woman.
222. The word that remains in the belly does not mean anything.
223. There is no bow without its meat.
224. There is no butcher that does not slaughter.
225. There is no difference between the thief and the looker-on.
226. There is no location which discusses its affairs in the same way as the other does.
227. There is no man that cannot become an orphan.
228. There is no mischance you are guaranteed against.
229. There is no name which cannot distinguish a child.
230. There is no nice bird in the millet.
231. There is no partridge which does not know its own way of scratching.
232. There is no pleasure that does not cause one's cheeks to tremble.
233. There is no rain which does not enrich someone.
234. There is no thing which does not cause another to exist.
235. There is no tree which a panting animal would not cling to.
236. There is not the son of the front and the son of the back.
237. There is nothing without a cause.
238. Thieves conceal themselves in the night not in the day.
239. To be laughed at by men is not to be wept by hyenas.
240. To be laughed at is not to be pitied.