74 Sayings of Bantu Origin
1. "Cunning comes to an end, what remains is folly." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
2. "One mouth doesn't taste the beer." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
3. "What makes the drum pleasing is the song." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
4. "The bull should be taken by the horns, a man at his word." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
5. "Work is good provided you do not forget to live." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
6. "Earth is like a prison, we all go in through the same door, but we stay in different cells." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
7. "Where there is a friend, one does not have to call, he will come of his own accord." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
8. "Respect a little child, and let it respect you." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
9. "No man can paddle two canoes at the same time." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
10. "They are happy, the free men that have their fathers." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
11. "Cut of the sick part while it is still small." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
12. "What nature gives us is not refused." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
13. "A new handle hurts the hand." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
14. "The bitter heart eats its owner." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
15. "What one won't eat by itself, one will eat when mixed with other food." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
16. "Patience is the mother of a beautiful child." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
17. "People get to know one another when traveling." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
18. "A stick one bends while it is still green." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
19. "The egg teaches the chicken how to breed." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
20. "Whenever I work hard for other people, I always sleep on an empty stomach." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
21. "Your friend, one doesn't stare at his forehead, one stares at his stomach." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
22. "You do not teach a giraffe to run." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
23. "The horizon will not disappear as you run towards it." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
24. "Visitors footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
25. "Days are many, what is one is life." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
26. "The road doesn't tell the traveler what lies ahead." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
27. "The judge also dies." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
28. "There are forty kinds of lunacy, but only one kind of common sense." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
29. "The cabin of a loved one is never too far away." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
30. "There is no return, worse luck; for could I return, I would foresee what has come into the country." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
31. "A kingdom's strength is in mutual honor." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
32. "The tortoise stores its wisdom in his shell." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
33. "Even if you are cunning, you will not tie water up in a bale of grass." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
34. "Away from home the girl picks forbidden fruit." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
35. "Stroke your dog and he will steal eggs." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
36. "Words in conversation are like beans, one breaks them off where they are ripe." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
37. "A case is not to be decided from one mouth." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
38. "Only heaven can see the back of a sparrow." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
39. "Mr. Not-present was the brave man." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
40. "He was entrapped by the evening, it has cost him his marriage." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
41. "The eye never forgets what the heart has seen." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
42. "Who suffers from diarrhea, is not afraid of the dark." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
43. "The wise are as rare as eagles that fly high in the sky." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
44. "A woman's clothes are the price her husband pays for peace." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
45. "One doesn't follow a wild beast into its lair." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
46. "Dance, father, people's eyes don't eat, they just stare." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
47. "When there is on a red-hot hoe, it is not grasped." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
48. "Hunger has no friend." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
49. "A thief does not like to be robbed." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
50. "Young man, countries practice witchcraft on one another." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
51. "A child one does not instruct on return, one instructs him when going." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
52. "We celebrated at the wax door, and all the time the honeycomb was empty within." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
53. "The insolence of shortness is to stretch itself big." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
54. "The earth is a beehive; we all enter by the same door but live in different cells." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
55. "The hunter who always comes home with meat is a thief." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
56. "What is not bitter is good to eat." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
57. "A dead man does not know where his grave is." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
58. "It is better to have no law than not enforcing it." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
59. "Just one by one white hairs have come, and thus have they grown." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
60. "To marry is to put a snake in one's handbag." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
61. "Every beast roars in its own den." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
62. "Even if we eat, earth will inevitably enter our mouths." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
63. "The owner of the skin is the one to tan it." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
64. "The most stupid chicken always challenges the wildcat." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
65. "A redeemer of people is a walker with people." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
66. "Mother carry me, and I tomorrow will carry you." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
67. "Days cannot be tied in a bundle." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
68. "Even if your bee-hive has no honey in it, you shouldn't break it up." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
69. "A good deed will make a good neighbor." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
70. "You take a bull by the horns and a man by his words." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
71. "The power of the crocodile is in the water." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
72. "It is the grass that knows where the snake goes." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
73. "A bone does not bring itself, it is people that bring it." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
74. "Adjoining houses always burn." (Bantu Sayings) Click to tweet
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