proverbs

"A fig for him. Let him doe his worst."

"A wrangler never wanteth words."

"Desires are nourished by delay."

"It is better never to begin, than never to make an end."

"The better workeman the worser husband."

"Good wine engendreth good blood."

"Glowing coales sparkle often."

"To promise, and to give nought, is to comfort a foole."

"Let him that beginneth the song make an end."

"A man shall never bee enriched by envie."

"Farre folke fare best."

"Experience the mother of wisedome."

"Musicke is the eie of the eare."

"It is a strange beast that hath neither head nor taile."

"If you do not protect your own honor, the crows will peck at your flesh."

"Let the rich man’s son speak, even though he is a dumb. When evaluating a rich man, don’t ask how much money he has; just ask when he got it."

"He that seeketh, findeth."

"The dog loves the one who beats it."

"Burning outside the fire is worse than burning inside [the fire]."

"At three words, he is at the top of the house."

"The Crosse is the ladder of heaven."

"Money maketh a man."

"For þe helder mon me mai of-riden, Betere þenne of-reden."

"Tshekisho Plaatje, Solomon (1916).Sechuana Proverbs with Literal Translations and Their European Equivalents"

"English Literal translation: Let it drop (said by one who settles a quarrel between two contending parties)"

"A e nne modiga"

"Tutto ha una fine, tranne la banana che ne ha due."

"La spina nella carne di un'altra persona è più facile a levarla."

"Anche se una piroga resta a lungo nel fiume non diventerà mai un coccodrillo."

"Naɣ'so ŋun ka zuli, Naawuni n-kariti o zɔhi"

"Dabiɛm kani kabo n zibiyuŋ"

"The poorest man in this world is not the one without money but the one without people."

"A brave man dies once, a coward a thousand times."

"The man is the woman’s honour"

"Those who are absent are always wrong."

"Usisafirie nyota ya mwenzio."

"Ukijifanya asali nzi wote watakula."

"Pole pole ndio mwendo."

"Kibarua hulima juani, tajiri hulia kivulini."

"Jogoo mtenda mema kaliwa."

"Msinji ukiinama hauna nguvu; usiushtaki ukuta ukianguka."

"Mtu ni watu."

"Fuata nyuki ule asali."

"Fadhila ya punda ni mateke."

"Haraka haraka haina baraka."

"Dhamiri safi ni tandiko laini."

"Ngozi ya chui uzuri kwa macho, ndani adui."

"Dua la kuku halimpati mwewe."

"Hisani haiozi."

"We try to make virtues out of the faults we have no wish to correct."