A tree is bent while it is still wet.
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
Only a fool tests the depth of a river with both feet.
Do not look where you feel, but where you slipped.
The best way to eat an elephant in your path is to cut him up into little pieces.
He who does not know one thing knows another.
Rain beats the leopard’s skin but it does not wash out the spots.
No matter how hot your anger is, it cannot cook yams.
A roaring lion kills no game.
Do not call the forest that shelters you a jungle.
Rain does not fall on one roof alone.
Ears that do not listen to advice, accompany the head when it is chopped off.
Not everyone who chased the zebra caught it, but he who caught it, chased it.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
A chattering bird builds no nest.
Hands wash each other.
A person is a person through other persons.
The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.