Tsumo starting with Y

Shona Proverbs

• Yambiro hwowa / kutanha isarura-udeWarnings are like mushrooms: everyone is free to gather them, but each person picks only the ones that appeal to him. Advice is offered openly and out of goodwill, yet few are willing to take it.
• Yaruma sei nzara / hurudza kurarira hute?Hunger must be biting very hard indeed when even a master farmer goes to bed on wild plums.
• Yatsika dope / yanwaAn animal that has left its feet in the mud has plainly been down at the water drinking. The traces it leaves behind tell you what it has done.
• Yatsika musheche / yanwaOnce the animal has trodden in the wet sand, it has already drunk; taking any part at all, however small, makes you a participant. Someone who got only a single leftover cup at a feast cannot claim to have had nothing.
• Yeuka hama / mutorwa ane hanganwaAlways be ready to help your own kin, because they are the ones who will stand by you in a crisis. Outsiders forget you and leave you stranded at the moment you need them.