281 Kikuyu Proverbs / Page 8
- 71. If you help yourself you will be helped.
 - 72. In every family where there is a son, the head of an ox, goat or ram is cooked to be eaten by him with his friends.
- 73. In the presence of elderly people one must not pour water.
- 74. Indulgence breeds regret.
- 75. It is always the potato of another family's boy that extinguishes the fire.
- 76. It is bad to get old, for one goes to bed grumbling.
- 77. It is bad to stay at home.
- 78. It is he who got milk that is merciful.
- 79. It is not the mother's will to have a bad offspring.
- 80. It is not the owner, trampling his own field, that spoils it.
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