“Imbwa nyoro ndidzo tsengi dzamatovo.”

When people say it

• Renny Mumvuma's 1982 Shona novel Imbwa Nyoro, from Mambo Press, takes its title from this proverb. Historians Innocent Dande and Sandra Swart note this in a 2018 paper on dogs in Zimbabwean writing. Tydskrif vir Letterkunde (Dande and Swart, 2018)
• When a bag of rice went missing after a church event in Chitungwiza, everyone looked at the loud boys, but it turned up at the home of the helper who never spoke. The pastor's wife said it.