{"collection":"folklore-oral-tradition","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/wikisource_Swahili_Tales_Proverbs/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/wikisource_Swahili_Tales_Proverbs","id":"wikisource_Swahili_Tales_Proverbs","license":"Public Domain / CC-BY-SA (see source)","rights_basis":"wikisource_site_inclusion_policy","source":"wikisource","source_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Swahili_Tales/Proverbs","summary":null,"tags":["Subpages"],"text":"Layout 2\n\nPROVERBS.\n\nHurrying, hurrying, has no blessing.\n\nThe tongue has no bone.\n\nThe destroyer of the country is a child of the country; a stranger does not weigh two hundred-weight.\n\nA new thing is good, though it be a sore place.\n\nRunning on a roof ends at the edge of it.\n\nIs not poor work good play?\n\nWonder not, children of men, at the things that are in this world.\n\nIf the Pleiades rise in sun, they set in rain; if they rise in rain, they set in sun.\n\nIf a dish is covered, what is in it is hidden.\n\nThere is no grief without a companion.\n\nWho will dance to a lion's roaring? Patience is the key of consolation.\n\nContinually, continually, the cord cuts the stone.\n\nWhen two elephants struggle it is the grass that suffers.\n\nUse your clay while it is wet.\n\nHe that is drunk with wine gets sober, he that is drunk with wealth does not.\n\nWhat bites is in your own clothes.\n\nLoud lamentations are not becoming in mourning.\n\nA sand-fly can get through anything.\n\nHe has fallen into a well.","title":"Swahili Tales/Proverbs","tradition":"folklore-oral-tradition","translated_text":null,"word_count":187}