2049 African Proverbs / Page 43
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If you don't scale the mountain, you can't view the plain.842.
If you don't stand for something, you will fall for something.843.
If you don't want a tail of a monkey to touch you then don't attend the monkey dance.844.
If you don't work you shan't eat.845.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.846.
If you fill your head with pride you will lack space for wisdom.847.
If you flog a baboon because it is ugly, you will end up killing it.848.
If you get annoyed of what you see, you blame your eyes.849.
If you get rich, be in a dark corner when you jump for joy.850.
If you give a handshake to the leopard, next time he will come for an embrace.851.
If you give bad food to your stomach, it drums for you to dance.852.
If you go to your in-laws you do not come back empty handed but with a cock.853.
If you hate your ancestors then assume your dead than you will love the hereafter.854.
If you have a dog to worship you, you must have a cat to ignore you.855.
If you have a dog, don't throw away bones.856.
If you have a poor father that is destiny; if you have a poor father-in-law, that is your mistake.857.
If you have escaped the jaws of the crocodile while bathing in the river, you will surely meet a leopard on the way.858.
If you have five wives, then you have five tongues.859.
If you have ground nuts in your room expect rats.860.
If you have health you have hope you have everything.