Tshi Proverbs

Perhaps you will eat a whole elephant and nothing gets stuck in your throat, and then you eat a fish and a bone gets stuck in your throat. Tshi Proverbs Image

Perhaps you will eat a whole elephant and nothing gets stuck in your throat, and then you eat a fish and a bone gets stuck in your throat.

If they are uttering insults and don’t mean you, and yet you reply, you have condemned yourself. Tshi Proverbs Image

If they are uttering insults and don’t mean you, and yet you reply, you have condemned yourself.

If there had been no poverty in europe, then the white man would not have come and spread his clothes in africa. Tshi Proverbs Image

If there had been no poverty in europe, then the white man would not have come and spread his clothes in africa.

No one roasts rotten meat and puts it in the mouth of their friend and then says ‘you mouth stinks.’ Tshi Proverbs Image

No one roasts rotten meat and puts it in the mouth of their friend and then says ‘you mouth stinks.’

At someone’s funeral we weep for our own mothers and fathers. Tshi Proverbs Image

At someone’s funeral we weep for our own mothers and fathers.

‘hit me but I must not hit you’ is no game at all. Tshi Proverbs Image

‘hit me but I must not hit you’ is no game at all.

If you are merciful to the antelope, you go to bed hungry. Tshi Proverbs Image

If you are merciful to the antelope, you go to bed hungry.

If you were born a male then you are given impossible tasks. Tshi Proverbs Image

If you were born a male then you are given impossible tasks.

The animal that is coming to be killed does not hear the hunter cough. Tshi Proverbs Image

The animal that is coming to be killed does not hear the hunter cough.

A tree that has grown bent for thirty years cannot be straightened in one year. Tshi Proverbs Image

A tree that has grown bent for thirty years cannot be straightened in one year.

The place where you are happy is better than the place you were born. Tshi Proverbs Image

The place where you are happy is better than the place you were born.

When a yam doesn’t grow well, we don’t blame it; it is because of the soil. Tshi Proverbs Image

When a yam doesn’t grow well, we don’t blame it; it is because of the soil.

When a fool is told a proverb, it has to be explained to him. Tshi Proverbs Image

When a fool is told a proverb, it has to be explained to him.

When a child knows how to wash his hands well, he eats with the elders. Tshi Proverbs Image

When a child knows how to wash his hands well, he eats with the elders.

It is because of man we wear swords. Tshi Proverbs Image

It is because of man we wear swords.

In order to find evildoers, every human being is given a name. Tshi Proverbs Image

In order to find evildoers, every human being is given a name.

Although the horse is stupid, it does not follow that the rider is stupid. Tshi Proverbs Image

Although the horse is stupid, it does not follow that the rider is stupid.

If a man is unhappy, his conduct is the cause. Tshi Proverbs Image

If a man is unhappy, his conduct is the cause.

If everyone helps to hold up the sky, then one person does not become tired. Tshi Proverbs Image

If everyone helps to hold up the sky, then one person does not become tired.

If someone hates you, don’t let her find you hateful. Tshi Proverbs Image

If someone hates you, don’t let her find you hateful.

If you go to a rat’s village and it is eating palm nuts, you eat some too. Tshi Proverbs Image

If you go to a rat’s village and it is eating palm nuts, you eat some too.

If you have no time to take care of your sickness, you get time to die. Tshi Proverbs Image

If you have no time to take care of your sickness, you get time to die.

No matter how generous you are, you don’t give your wife away. Tshi Proverbs Image

No matter how generous you are, you don’t give your wife away.

The one who is looking for a wife doesn’t speak contemptuously of women. Tshi Proverbs Image

The one who is looking for a wife doesn’t speak contemptuously of women.

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