281 Kikuyu Proverbs / Page 9
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The fact that you have gone near the battle-field does not mean that you fought.162.
The fear keeps your house poor.163.
The fed baby plays on its mother's bed.164.
The flea troubles him who has got it in his ear.165.
The food eaten first lasts longest in the stomach.166.
The food found Wacu in the field.167.
The food that is in the mouth is not yet in the belly.168.
The fool takes many people with him.169.
The foot and the earth cannot help meeting.170.
The forest of an unpleasant person is the one that has trees.171.
The goat slaughtered for a man who is sick now, finds another who ws sick long before.172.
The goats pasture with bells hanging from their necks in order not to stray.173.
The good milking cow is praised after her death.174.
The grove of the hear is not laid open.175.
The hump of the ox that has grown old must be eaten by women.176.
The hunter's son knows how to hunt.177.
The hyena calls another hyena worse than itself.178.
The hyena does not eat its baby, and you know how insatiable it is.179.
The Kikuyu know how to conceal their quiver, but do not know how to conceal their secrets.180.
The land enriches not people who clear it, but people who come.