Zambian Proverbs

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Do not look at a visitor's face but at his stomach.

He who listened to the woman suffered famine at harvest time.

I am because we are; we are because I am.

If you are ugly, learn how to dance.

If you have no teeth, do not break the clay cooking pot.

Jump over a log but not over your neighbour's word.

The king lives way up where the stench of the poor cannot reach him.

A belching toad portends rain.