Meaning: The boat of a poor man cannot sail near the wind

Context: Poverty limits opportunities

Meaning: The remedy for fire is fire

Context: Sometimes you must fight fire with fire

Meaning: An empty tin cannot stop sounding

Context: Ignorant people are often the loudest

Meaning: The curse of a fowl does not bother the kite

Context: The weak cannot harm the strong

Meaning: A baby should not be hushed with a bad prayer

Context: Do not use harmful means to solve problems

Meaning: The gratitude of a donkey is a breaking of wind; and one with no discretion is a cow

Context: Some people are ungrateful or foolish

Meaning: A stick in the hand is the one that kills a snake

Context: Use what you have to solve immediate problems

Meaning: Follow bees, that you may eat honey

Context: Follow experts to gain benefits

Meaning: You may put a riddle to a fool, but a clever man will solve it

Context: Intelligence solves complex problems

Meaning: The knot does not hurt the firewood

Context: Some actions do not cause harm

Meaning: Put the cover on the platter and let the bastard pass by

Context: Hide your secrets from untrustworthy people

Meaning: The skin of yesterday's sugar-cane is a whole harvest to an ant

Context: What is trivial to one may be valuable to another

Meaning: Knock a log in order to hear the sound it makes

Context: Test something to understand its nature

Meaning: Little by little fills up the measure

Context: Small efforts accumulate into significant results

Meaning: Take care, you do not get the stick in your eyes!

Context: Be cautious in your actions

Meaning: A possession is under the fold of the loin-cloth; a weapon is in the hand

Context: Be prepared for emergencies

Meaning: It is not in it, it is not in it; that is where it definitely is

Context: Denial often reveals the truth

Meaning: There is no distance that has no end

Context: Everything has an end

Meaning: There is no 'Masika' without mosquitoes

Context: Every situation has its annoyances

Meaning: There is no misfortune but it has its fellow

Context: Misfortunes often come in pairs