This document contains various Swahili proverbs and sayings about relationships, love, marriage, and family. Some of the key ideas expressed are: - Love understands all languages and makes one both blind and deaf. Real love means withholding the truth even when you can hurt someone. - In relationships, affection and entertainment should be balanced, beginning with more entertainment and less affection initially. - Literature focuses more on sex while life focuses more on children and family. - While love is a matter of chemistry, sex is a matter of physics. Sex takes little time but causes much trouble.

1. 1. The cook does not have be a beautiful woman.
2. Mother is a morsel but not to be dipped into gravy(Mai musuwa usingasehwi mumuto).
(Some people are sacred and not for common use).
3. The mango on the ground belongs to all, but the one on tree is s/he who can climb.
4. A hunter has no mysterious notions about the forest.
5. A new thing doesn't come to she who sits but to she who travels.
6. It is mysterious if a baboon falls from a tree.
7. What can be expected to be dropped is held in the hands, but what is in the heart I shall die
with.
8. For a lizard to bask in the sun is to have a cave in view(Dzvingu kuzamba zuva huona
bako).
9. To know one's in-laws means being told who they are(kuziva mbuya huudzwa).
10. Chibwenzi sagula ndi chipanda(Friendship is never bothered bought by beers).
11. Angakhale fisi ali ndi bwenzi(even the hyena has a friend).
12. Ulendo wadya galu(the dog has eaten the journey)(the journey was a failure).
13. Waponda phwetekere(he has stepped on the tomato)(he has impregnated a woman).
14. He who loves you will make you weep.
15. Where there love there is no darkness.
16. Love sickness hurts but does not kill.
17. You can't appreciate the love of your parents without having the children of your own.
18. In love a king and a beggar are equal.
19. Love has to be sown by deeds not words.
20. Love understands all languages.
21. Love makes a man both blind and deaf.
22. The heart that loves is always young.
23. Being a good husband is like a stand-up comic. You need 10 years before you can call
yourself a beginner.
24. There are only three things women need in life: food, water and compliments.
25. Real love amounts to withholding the truth even when you are offered the perfect
opportunity to hurt someone's feelings.
26. There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment,
food and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of
entertainment, a moderate amount of food and the merest suggestions of affection. As the
amount of affection increases, the entertainment can be reduced proportionately.
27. Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life is the other
way around.
28. Love is a matter of chemistry, but sex is a matter of physics.
29. Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.
30. It's not economical to go to bed early if the results is twins.