Every joke (insult) has its own familiarity.
Swahili, spoken by about 200 million people in Tanzania, Kenya, northern Mozambique, southwestern Somalia, Northwest Madagascar and the Comoros Islands, is a Bantu, Afro-Arab and Comorian...
Read more...The big kalimba fish eats the small ones. Little people are the victims of big people.
Instead of kalimba one could use mbota (Nile perch) or chewa (rock cod) or nguru (king fish)
That which bit me yesterday and hurt me, does not crawl over me a second time.
I'll see to that; I'll be careful not to expose myself to insults again.
Whoever mocks a lame [person], one day it will happen to him. Sikilia: listen to (for, with, at).
Every quarrel is used again.
The wound returns to the scab. It remains in the memory. The insult is not forgotten and whatever you do it comes back to you.
Don't put sand in my cake. "Do not spoil my sport, do not rob my story"
A person who laughs at a scar has not received a wound. Laughing at peoples' misfortune shows ignorance.
Laughing, laughing will die away. People who always laugh at others will get their due
The tortoise fled because they laughed at its gait. A wise person keeps silent when ridiculed.
