You are not great just because you say you are.
When you shoot a zebra in the black stripe, the white dies too; shoot it in the white and the black dies too.
When you have a lot to do, start with a meal.
When the elephant is slain all the tribes gather together to eat of it.
What the poor man says is not listened to.
Walls have ears, and little pots too.
The wrong-headed fool who refuses counsel, will come to grief.
The seed waits for its garden or ground where it will be sown.
The quail waits for the stick; the idle loiterer about a place waits for a kick from an old boot.
The pool has dried up, and the fish is in trouble.
The last partridge to rise gets the most sticks thrown at it.
The heart is like a goat that has to be tied up.
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the nation and its destiny.
The fool who owns an ox is seldom recognized as a fool.
Plenty sits still, hunger is a wanderer.
No stake ever grew old with the bark on.
Old age does not announce itself.
