Ndebele Tribe Quotable Quotes, set five

The leopard eats by its spots.

The leopard licks its spots, both black and white.

The beast (cow) on the move does not eat all the grass.

The axe forgets, but the tree doesn’t forget .

The secretary bird dies with its feathers intact.

The thief is the one caught (in the act).

The idler eats his idleness.

To be stingy to another is to be stingy to yourself.

He enters the wound like a maggot.

Marriage is dirty.

He remained holding the tail of a dove.

There is nothing bent that can not be straightened.

The blanket for carrying a child is not to be thrown away if the child dies.

Height is not be hurried.

The (ugly) hammer-head bird also admires himself (looking) in the water .

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