2049 African Proverbs / Page 177
- 1761. What is put in a basket before going to the market won't be the same thing returned in the basket.
 - 1762. What is said over the dead lion's body could not be said to him alive.
 - 1763. What is sweet in a fools mouth will surely finish is money.
 - 1764. What is tightly rapped is known by only the rapper.
 - 1765. What kills a calf comes from the udder.
 - 1766. What lowers itself is ready to fall.
 - 1767. What makes a fool excited now a wise person had heard before and isn't excited.
 - 1768. What makes a sheep blit loudly the goat had already seen before.
 - 1769. What makes up an anthill is the effort and order of determined and organised termites.
 - 1770. What never kills a herdsman never takes away his cattle.

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