148 Sayings of Kenyan Origin
1. "Only scratch where you can reach." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
2. "Never talk about a rope in the house of a man who has just been hanged." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
3. "Never let a hyena know how well you can bite." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
4. "Dip after dip depletes a jar of honey." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
5. "A bird does not change its feathers because the weather is bad." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
6. "A child does not die because the mother's breasts are dry." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
7. "The house of a madman is never burnt." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
8. "Bad dancing does not break an engagement." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
9. "Cut your nose to save your face." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
10. "Help yourself and God will help you." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
11. "No matter how tall the neck is, the head will always be on top of it." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
12. "No one can pass twice between the thighs of an elephant." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
13. "He who wants to sleep in the middle must be first to arrive." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
14. "A man who sleeps with your mother can slap you in her absence." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
15. "It is the duty of children to wait on elders, and not the elders on children." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
16. "Hurrying has no blessing." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
17. "Old age devours your youth." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
18. "Bartered grains do not fill up the granary." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
19. "Absence makes the heart forget." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
20. "Hearts do not meet one another like roads." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
21. "A cat wearing gloves catches no mouse." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
22. "The cries of a goat do not prevent it from reaching the market." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
23. "If a greedy eater is near a patient, such a patient can never survive." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
24. "However much it rains on you, no wild banana tree will grow on your head." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
25. "It is only a fool that sweats in water." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
26. "A woman's stomach does not grow if she is not pregnant." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
27. "No matter how much the world changes, cats will never lay eggs." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
28. "There is no elephant that complains about the weight of its trunk. No elephant is burdened by the weight of its tusks." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
29. "Talking to one another is loving one another." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
30. "No one can use another person's teeth to smile." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
31. "A debt between children born by the same mother is paid in a clever way." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
32. "When the figs are ripe all the birds want to eat." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
33. "Don't sweep another's house whilst your own is dirty." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
34. "Two watermelons cannot be held under one arm." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
35. "Good fortune doesn't roar like a lion." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
36. "A man's teeth cannot grow taller than his penis." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
37. "There is no difference between growing old and living your life." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
38. "Follow bees and get honey." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
39. "Empty stomachs create friendships." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
40. "If you receive a gift don't measure it." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
41. "Before swallowing a mango seed, first calculate the diameter of your anus." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
42. "There is no phrase that doesn't have a double meaning." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
43. "The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
44. "The sweetness of sugar is not in its color." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
45. "Nobody gathers firewood to roast a thin goat." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
46. "It is better to be poor when one is young, rather than becoming poor at old age." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
47. "When an elephant falls, meat is sure to be surplus for those who follow the hunter." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
48. "It is the grass that suffers when elephants fight." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
49. "Affairs of the home should not be discussed in the public square." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
50. "Do not follow a person who is running a way." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
51. "Even an expert swimmer drowns." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
52. "No one feels the pains that arise from unintended injury." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
53. "You will notice no hills on the road to your loved one." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
54. "Water doesn't stay in the sky forever." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
55. "A rope parts where is thinnest." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
56. "The early riser avoids the dew." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
57. "If it doesn't resemble dad, it resembles mum." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
58. "A rat-trap catches both the guilty and the innocent." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
59. "We have not inherited this land from our ancestors; rather we have borrowed it from our children." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
60. "At the harvest you know how good the millet is." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
61. "The grave of the gravedigger is never deep." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
62. "You shouldn't hate someone unless you have slept in their house." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
63. "No attention is paid to him who is always complaining." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
64. "He who does not know one thing knows another." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
65. "He who wants what is under a bed must bend over to get it." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
66. "Rushing is not important, making sure is." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
67. "The chief's dog is chief of the dogs." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
68. "You may laugh at a friend's roof; don't laugh at his sleeping accommodation." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
69. "A dead rat feels no cold." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
70. "Each has his own way of moving." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
71. "No matter how far a man urinates, the last drop will always fall between his knees." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
72. "Even a friend cannot rescue one from old age." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
73. "The only time you will see a quiet snake is when it has swallowed another snake." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
74. "You cannot shave a man in his absence." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
75. "A word in the heart does not win." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
76. "If gold rusts, what will iron do?" (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
77. "Even the small leopard is called leopard." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
78. "How easy it is to defeat people who do not kindle fire for themselves." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
79. "Competition exhausted the lungs." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
80. "Only believe a woman one day later." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
81. "The gods only hear one wish at a time, and nothing more." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
82. "A donkey always says thank you with a kick." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
83. "One finger alone cannot even kill a louse." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
84. "What's too hard for a man must be worth looking into." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
85. "Two fingers cannot enter the same nostril." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
86. "Anyone who urinates in a stream should be warned because any of his relatives may drink from the water." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
87. "Do not slaughter a calf before its mother's eyes." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
88. "An old banana leaf was once young and green." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
89. "Burning charcoal is turned into ashes." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
90. "If a soup is sweet, it is money that cooks it." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
91. "If a dead tree falls, it carries with it a live one." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
92. "Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
93. "Once you have been tossed by a buffalo, a black ox looks like a buffalo." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
94. "No matter how tall your grandfather was, you have to do your own growing." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
95. "When a ripe fruit sees an honest man, it drops." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
96. "Before the gods destroy you, they first make you mad." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
97. "All monkeys cannot hang on the same branch." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
98. "Feet cannot stop one from going into danger." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
99. "The sun does not refuse to shine on a village just because it is small." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
100. "Seeing is different from being told." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
101. "A fowl does not forget where it lays its eggs." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
102. "A white dog does not bite another white dog." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
103. "There is no cure that does not have its price." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
104. "A flea can trouble a lion more than the lion can harm a flea." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
105. "Two footsteps do not make a path." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
106. "Nobody walks with another man's gait." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
107. "A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
108. "He who refuses to obey cannot command." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
109. "Sleep and indolence are not cousins of a good harvest." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
110. "Having a good discussion is like having riches." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
111. "Every door has its own key." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
112. "Do not say the first thing that comes to your mind." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
113. "Thunder is not yet rain." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
114. "A slave has no choice." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
115. "Just because he harmed your goat, do not go out and kill his bull." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
116. "A woman who wants a child cannot sleep with her clothes on." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
117. "He who does not look ahead always remains behind." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
118. "Greatness and beauty do not belong to the gods alone." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
119. "He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
120. "A sinking ship doesn't need a captain." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
121. "An empty pot makes the loudest noise." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
122. "The elephant and the tiger do not go hunting on the same pasture." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
123. "Soon found, soon lost." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
124. "Virtue is better than wealth." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
125. "When you take a knife away from a child, give him a piece of wood instead." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
126. "The deeds of a Man are greater than the details of his birth." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
127. "An orphaned calf licks its own back." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
128. "If you want to kill a monkey, avoid looking him in the eyes." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
129. "Beauty is not sold or eaten." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
130. "Intelligence is like hair, everyone has its own." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
131. "A black ant will not bite another." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
132. "A true person is the one who gives birth to a foolish child." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
133. "Who does not know one thing knows another." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
134. "Two men quarrelling do not share the same seat on a canoe." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
135. "It is better for the eye to die than the heart." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
136. "A friend in power is a friend lost." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
137. "Good things sell, bad things advertise." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
138. "The horns of a cow cannot be hidden." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
139. "After a foolish deed comes remorse." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
140. "Seeing rain clouds in the sky is not the same as getting wet." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
141. "He who keeps the company of a bad person, themselves becomes bad." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
142. "Do not accuse someone of witchcraft before they have cast a spell." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
143. "If you do not know death, look at the grave." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
144. "Every bird flies with its own wings." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
145. "Blessings are better than possessions." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
146. "The water of the river flows on without waiting for the thirsty man." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
147. "When the right hand washes the left hand and the left hand washes the right hand, both hands become clean." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
148. "A child can play with its mother's breasts in public, but it cannot dare play with its father's testicles." (Kenyan Sayings) Click to tweet
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