2049 African Proverbs / Page 41
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If we do what we always did we will always remain what we always we're.802.
If wisdom is measured by the size of the beard then the goat is a philosopher king.803.
If you are building something and a nail breaks, should you stop building altogether, or should you change the nail?804.
If you are digging a pit for your enemy, don't make it too deep, for you may fall into it.805.
If you are not an animal you will never find yourself in a trap.806.
If you are threatened by a man, sleep at night, if it is by a woman then stay awake.807.
If you are too modest, then you will go hungry.808.
If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.809.
If you aren't in your own home, you dance while seated.810.
If you befriend a mosquito it will still attack you at night.811.
If you borrow from an eagle you will always be looking up in the sky.812.
If you break a coconut on a man's head, he will not enjoy eating it.813.
If you can bear the hissing of a snake, don't complain when you are bitten.814.
If you can walk, you can dance; If you can talk, you can sing.815.
If you can't distinguish how to whistle a festival alarm from a warning alarm, then better not alarm and let s/he who knows the difference to do the alarming.816.
If you can't eat a little your mouth stinks.817.
If you can't hold children in your arms, please hold them in your heart.818.
If you can't stand the heat then get out of the kitchen.819.
If you cannot moan in a true cultural manner then it means your laughing.820.
If you carry the egg basket do not dance.