Rwandan Proverbs

If you are building a house and a nail breaks, do you stop building, or do you change the nail? Rwandan Proverbs Image

If you are building a house and a nail breaks, do you stop building, or do you change the nail?

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. Rwandan Proverbs Image

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you.

You can take the boy out of the country but you can’t take the country out of the boy. Rwandan Proverbs Image

You can take the boy out of the country but you can’t take the country out of the boy.

When your beard appears, childhood disappears. Rwandan Proverbs Image

When your beard appears, childhood disappears.

You can take a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink. Rwandan Proverbs Image

You can take a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.

If you shake a dog, you shake his owner. Rwandan Proverbs Image

If you shake a dog, you shake his owner.

He who has travelled alone can tell what he likes. Rwandan Proverbs Image

He who has travelled alone can tell what he likes.

When in someone else’s home leave your defects at the door. Rwandan Proverbs Image

When in someone else’s home leave your defects at the door.

When the child falls the mother weeps; when the mother falls the child laughs. Rwandan Proverbs Image

When the child falls the mother weeps; when the mother falls the child laughs.

When the leopard is away, his cubs are eaten. Rwandan Proverbs Image

When the leopard is away, his cubs are eaten.

In a court of fowls, the cockroach never wins his case. Rwandan Proverbs Image

In a court of fowls, the cockroach never wins his case.

In a fiddler’s house, all are dancers. Rwandan Proverbs Image

In a fiddler’s house, all are dancers.

Pregnancy and fire cannot be kept secret. Rwandan Proverbs Image

Pregnancy and fire cannot be kept secret.

What itches in the daughter’s skirt, itches also in her mother’s. Rwandan Proverbs Image

What itches in the daughter’s skirt, itches also in her mother’s.

The most extensive land is the human belly. Rwandan Proverbs Image

The most extensive land is the human belly.

The rich man never dances badly. Rwandan Proverbs Image

The rich man never dances badly.

You set the trap when the rat has gone. Rwandan Proverbs Image

You set the trap when the rat has gone.

Hens keep quiet when the cock is around. Rwandan Proverbs Image

Hens keep quiet when the cock is around.

A girl only gets pregnant once. Rwandan Proverbs Image

A girl only gets pregnant once.

Help from abroad always comes when the rain has stopped. Rwandan Proverbs Image

Help from abroad always comes when the rain has stopped.

Every cackling hen was an egg at first. Rwandan Proverbs Image

Every cackling hen was an egg at first.

A man’s heart is not a sack open to all. Rwandan Proverbs Image

A man’s heart is not a sack open to all.

Only God generates, man only educates. Rwandan Proverbs Image

Only God generates, man only educates.

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