70 Sayings of Rwandan Origin

1. "When in someone else's home leave your defects at the door." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

2. "A man's heart is not a sack open to all." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

3. "The other's suffering is incomprehensible." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

4. "What itches in the daughter's skirt, itches also in her mother's." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

5. "There isn't a place where peace reigns at night." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

6. "It is only when someone kills a madman that people will know he has relatives." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

7. "A friend who visits you when you are suffering is your best friend." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

8. "The most extensive land is the human belly." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

9. "Laws are heavier than stones." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

10. "A name isn't a man." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

11. "The other's stitch in the side doesn't prevent you from sleeping." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

12. "You set the trap when the rat has gone." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

13. "You can take a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

14. "Ends and beginnings are identical." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

15. "The one who finds bedding, aspires for a bed-mate." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

16. "All proverbs have a good reason of existing." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

17. "The depth of a speech comes with jaws." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

18. "To escape thunder is to speak about it." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

19. "Death holds itself in readiness for the ones who laugh." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

20. "If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off your lips." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

21. "One lives through the day, one never steps beyond the day." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

22. "Beetles chew from either side, but always end up together inside." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

23. "Only God generates, man only educates." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

24. "Pregnancy and fire cannot be kept secret." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

25. "You can take the boy out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the boy." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

26. "If you are building a house and a nail breaks, do you stop building, or do you change the nail?" (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

27. "You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

28. "Real fraternity is not about blood, it is about sharing." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

29. "Speech travels enough." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

30. "Where there is peace, daggers are used for shaving." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

31. "No one can stop one's lineage." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

32. "Whoever dies is first affected in its ability to reproduce." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

33. "Rain falls on everyone, but one person gets wetter than the rest." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

34. "No prophet amongst ourselves." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

35. "When the leopard is away, his cubs are eaten." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

36. "The stomach never lets go." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

37. "He who has travelled alone can tell what he likes." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

38. "What reaches the top of the hill cannot be called back." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

39. "Tomorrow's things are told by those coming tomorrow." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

40. "The fertilizer of friendship is made of words." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

41. "To raise the eyes isn't to greet." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

42. "A sibling's relation is the one that consumes itself." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

43. "The destiny of two fingers is to live together." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

44. "Savoring the world only takes place when you get along." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

45. "A distant brother is less valuable than a neighbor." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

46. "A stone that is visible cannot destroy a hoe." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

47. "There is no pregnancy that isn't useful." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

48. "No one fears the night; one fears what steps out of it." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

49. "Someone's mother comes first." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

50. "No one can discard an elder's saying." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

51. "A girl only gets pregnant once." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

52. "Hens keep quiet when the cock is around." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

53. "The guest is always the prisoner of the host." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

54. "The pain of giving birth is never mediocre." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

55. "The rich man never dances badly." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

56. "The grateful is rare." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

57. "The sharpness of the tongue defeats the sharpness of the warriors." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

58. "When your beard appears, childhood disappears." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

59. "When the child falls the mother weeps; when the mother falls the child laughs." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

60. "Nobody hates himself more than he who hates others." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

61. "From within a courtyard, the owner takes all that comes." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

62. "In a fiddler's house, all are dancers." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

63. "Homes might burn all night, they always go off in the morning." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

64. "A large eye does not mean keen vision." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

65. "Help from abroad always comes when the rain has stopped." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

66. "If you shake a dog, you shake his owner." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

67. "The slug is aware of the cleanliness ahead, never the dirt left behind." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

68. "Every cackling hen was an egg at first." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

69. "You refuse to run and there goes your fall." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

70. "In a court of fowls, the cockroach never wins his case." (Rwandan Sayings) Click to tweet