73 Bantu Proverbs / Page 6
- 51. The power of the crocodile is in the water.
 - 52. The road doesn't tell the traveler what lies ahead.
- 53. The tortoise stores its wisdom in his shell.
- 54. The wise are as rare as eagles that fly high in the sky.
- 55. There are forty kinds of lunacy, but only one kind of common sense.
- 56. There is no return, worse luck; for could I return, I would foresee what has come into the country.
- 57. They are happy, the free men that have their fathers.
- 58. Visitors' footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick.
- 59. We celebrated at the wax door, and all the time the honeycomb was empty within.
- 60. What is not bitter is good to eat.
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