Masai Proverbs
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A bargain cannot be held in the palm of the hand.
A blind sheep might chance across rain water.
A bull cannot bellow in two places at once.
A lie cannot fill the palm.
A lion can run faster than we can, but we can run farther.
A man does not know when he is well off; it is only when he is poor that he remembers the days of plenty.
An elephant fears attack from several sides.
A new idea (custom) follows an old one.
A particle of goat dung cannot be eaten by a large gourd.
A boy (man) is not asked where (how) he recovered.
A cow is as good as a man.
A person does not itch from a thorn that is not his.
A proverb does not answer itself.
A zebra takes its stripes wherever it goes.
Actions come by the use of the legs, and if arrows come, there are legs behind them.
Baboons do not go far from the place of their birth.
Be as familiar with observation as you are with the place you live.
Behold the people you are passing. The man is there, and the male, the woman and the female.
Being defeated and dying are the same.
Bravery is not everything, and however brave a man may be, two brave men are better.
Cheating and doing something by force are not the same.
Coal laughs at ashes, not knowing that the same fate which has befallen them will befall it.
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