Xhosa Proverbs

Throats are all alike in swallowing. Xhosa Proverbs Image

Throats are all alike in swallowing.

If we blink the eyes in order not to see a wicked person, how shall we be able to see a good person? Xhosa Proverbs Image

If we blink the eyes in order not to see a wicked person, how shall we be able to see a good person?

Bakuba is far away, no person ever reached it. Xhosa Proverbs Image

Bakuba is far away, no person ever reached it.

The shield turned the wrong way. Xhosa Proverbs Image

The shield turned the wrong way.

There is no beast that does not roar in its den. Xhosa Proverbs Image

There is no beast that does not roar in its den.

To skin a mouse. Xhosa Proverbs Image

To skin a mouse.

The land is dead. Xhosa Proverbs Image

The land is dead.

One fly does not provide for another. Xhosa Proverbs Image

One fly does not provide for another.

The crab has stuck fast between the stones at the entrance of its hole. Xhosa Proverbs Image

The crab has stuck fast between the stones at the entrance of its hole.

One does not become great by claiming greatness. Xhosa Proverbs Image

One does not become great by claiming greatness.

A spy for both. Xhosa Proverbs Image

A spy for both.

He is a buck of an endless forest. Xhosa Proverbs Image

He is a buck of an endless forest.

He has gone in pursuit of the birds of the sea. Xhosa Proverbs Image

He has gone in pursuit of the birds of the sea.

He has fastened a dog to a shrub. Xhosa Proverbs Image

He has fastened a dog to a shrub.

He has drunk the juice of the flower of the wild aloe. Xhosa Proverbs Image

He has drunk the juice of the flower of the wild aloe.

The coming of nkele. Xhosa Proverbs Image

The coming of nkele.

Like the marriage feast of mapassa. Xhosa Proverbs Image

Like the marriage feast of mapassa.

You are lighting a fire in the wind. Xhosa Proverbs Image

You are lighting a fire in the wind.

You are creeping on your knees to the fireplace. Xhosa Proverbs Image

You are creeping on your knees to the fireplace.

It is not every one who is a son of gaika. Xhosa Proverbs Image

It is not every one who is a son of gaika.

The people who rescue and kill. Xhosa Proverbs Image

The people who rescue and kill.

It dies and rises like the moon. Xhosa Proverbs Image

It dies and rises like the moon.

It has stuck fast by one of the front legs. Xhosa Proverbs Image

It has stuck fast by one of the front legs.

It is a cob stripped of maize in an ashpit. Xhosa Proverbs Image

It is a cob stripped of maize in an ashpit.

Misfortune of soup made of shanks and feet. Xhosa Proverbs Image

Misfortune of soup made of shanks and feet.

They are people of experience who do not sleep at a strange place. Xhosa Proverbs Image

They are people of experience who do not sleep at a strange place.

We shall hear, we are on the side towards which the wind blows. Xhosa Proverbs Image

We shall hear, we are on the side towards which the wind blows.

They have slaughtered at kukwane where much meat is obtainable. Xhosa Proverbs Image

They have slaughtered at kukwane where much meat is obtainable.

They prevent us from getting red clay from the pit, and they do not use it. Xhosa Proverbs Image

They prevent us from getting red clay from the pit, and they do not use it.

The sun never sets without fresh news. Xhosa Proverbs Image

The sun never sets without fresh news.

The walls have come into collision. Xhosa Proverbs Image

The walls have come into collision.

The baldness of a head begins at the temples. Xhosa Proverbs Image

The baldness of a head begins at the temples.

He is ripe inside, like a water-melon. Xhosa Proverbs Image

He is ripe inside, like a water-melon.

The wonderful and the impossible have come into collision. Xhosa Proverbs Image

The wonderful and the impossible have come into collision.

I rejoice that kolomba’s mother is dead. Xhosa Proverbs Image

I rejoice that kolomba’s mother is dead.

I, the adhesive grass, will stick fast to you. Xhosa Proverbs Image

I, the adhesive grass, will stick fast to you.

The mist and the sun are together. Xhosa Proverbs Image

The mist and the sun are together.

It is the foot of a baboon. Xhosa Proverbs Image

It is the foot of a baboon.

It is the seed of the umya. Xhosa Proverbs Image

It is the seed of the umya.

A person who will not take advice gets knowledge when trouble overtakes him. Xhosa Proverbs Image

A person who will not take advice gets knowledge when trouble overtakes him.

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