A bird can be guarded, a wife can't.
Proverb · Swahili
Source
- Swahili Proverbs: Methali za Kiswahili. Center for African Studies, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, swahiliproverbs.afrst.illinois.edu/women.html. Entry 4588, recording the Swahili as “Ndege hulindwa, mke halindwi.”