281 Kikuyu Proverbs / Page 3
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Cooked food is not sold for goats.42.
Cutting by the tongue is different from cutting by the knife.43.
Darkness caused to dance even him who cannot.44.
Darkness shows no wrong path to she who gets what she wants before dark.45.
Every case begins from the stomach.46.
Every feast has ists guest of honour.47.
Everybody regrets not what he leaves but what he does not find.48.
Fools rejoice for a bad thing.49.
For a jest one should not take the arrow out of the quiver.50.
From a jest comes a strife.51.
Goats fall that take hold of lichens.52.
Great haste breaks the yam tuber.53.
Having rain clouds is not the same as having rain..54.
He is a man that looks after maney as 'njuu' looks after locusts.55.
He who adorns himself knows to what sort of dance he is going.56.
He who does not know the road delays also one that knows it.57.
He who does not know, knows after being told.58.
He who goes around with his body upright, later on will go crawling.59.
He who is full does not understand what is told.60.
He who is stricken knows how to defend himself.