73 Bantu Proverbs / Page 2
- 11. Adjoining houses always burn.
 - 12. Away from home the girl picks forbidden fruit.
 - 13. Chieftanship is not infectious.
 - 14. Cunning comes to an end, what remains is folly.
 - 15. Cut of the sick part while it is still small.
 - 16. Dance, father, people's eyes don't eat, they just stare.
 - 17. Days are many, what is one is life.
 - 18. Days cannot be tied in a bundle.
 - 19. Earth is like a prison: we all go in through the same door, but we stay in different cells.
 - 20. Even if we eat, earth will eventually enter our mouth.

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