62 South African Proverbs / Page 2
- 11. Even the maid has a family.
 - 12. He who has no intelligence is happy with it.
 - 13. He. He. He. You begin with the meal before the water is boiling.
 - 14. Hope does not kill; I shall live in hope of getting what I seek another day.
 - 15. If he keeps on imitating everybody the monkey will one day cut his own throat.
 - 16. If you are looking for a fly in your food it means that you are full.
 - 17. If your buttocks burn, you know you have done wrong.
 - 18. It is hunger that killed the man with many wives.
 - 19. It is the snake that smells the rat.
 - 20. Knowledge is like a lion; it cannot be gently embraced.

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