Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian, page 7

179 proverbs and old sayings ethiopian

A prtner in the buisness will not put an obstacle to it.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about obstacles

Eat when the meal is ready, speak when the time is ripe.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about time

If one is not in a hurry, even an egg will start walking.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian

A house can't be built for the rainy season that is past.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about season, past, home, house

Eat when the food is ready; speak when the time is right.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about food, rightness, time

The dog I bought, bit me; the fire I kindeled, burned me.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about fire, fire brigade

A melancholic look is visible but not a melancholic heart.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about heart

Dine with a stranger, but save youur love for your famiuly.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about love

If relatives help each other, what harm can be done to them?

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about help

Because he killed his wife he took shelter with his in-laws.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about wife

She who does not yet know how to walk cannot climb a ladder.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian

Whether it rains or stops raining, the lentils have two eyes.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about eyes

A belt fastened while running will come undone while running.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian

O, sheep if I do not eat you, you will eat me, said the hyena.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian

When the Nile knows a secret the desert will soon know it too.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about secret

Give advice; if people don't listen, let adversity teach them.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about advice, people

The nile has no resting place it wanderes around carrying a log.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian

It is better to be the cub of a live jackal than of a dead lion.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian

Evil penetrates like a needle and then becomes like an oak tree.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian

Only the man who is not hungry says the coconut has a hard shell.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about man