Masai Proverbs
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Happiness is as good as food.
He is like a hyena's sinew.
He eats his food like a donkey.
He separates himself from his friends like a sick (or dead) donkey.
He who has a father is still not circumcised.
He who is unable to dance says that the yard is stony.
Hide the mouthfuls of food.
Home is not far away when you are alive.
If a stranger comes to stay with you, do not forget when you lay aside his weapons that he is hungry.
It cannot be cleansed with a brown he-goat.
It does not take as long to settle a quarrel as it takes a cow's udder to fill with milk after she has been covered.
It is better to be poor and live long than to be rich and die young.
It is impossible to find a man who has everything, but it is possible to find one who enjoys the things he has.
It is the belly which daily gives thanks.
It is the eye which has travelled that is clever.
It is the same thing when a man is once there whether he has been called or whether he has come of his own free will.
Life and death are not alike.
Life has seasons.
Lonely is one.
Man is always beaten by his own tricks.
May you be as big as the white mountain.
Mountains do not meet.
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