Malawian Proverbs

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The body pays for a slip of the foot and gold pays for a slip of the tongue.

The wrong-headed fool, who refuses counsel, will come to grief.

One muddy buffalo makes the whole herd dirty.

The lead cow gets whipped the most.

An egg never sits on a hen.

As if it weren’t bad enough to fall, the ladder lands on top of you.

We are born from the womb of our mother; we are buried in the womb of the earth.

Go away and the conversation changes.

Beating a drum is not to break it.

The cradle is rocked but the baby is pinched.