62 South African Proverbs / Page 5
- 41. The last partridge to rise gets the most sticks thrown at it.
 - 42. The one chased away with a club comes back, but the one chased away with reason does not.
- 43. The pool has dried up, and the fish is in trouble.
- 44. The poor man's proverb is never quoted.
- 45. The quail waits for the stick; the idle loiterer about a place waits for a kick from an old boot.
- 46. The seed waits for its garden or ground where it will be sown.
- 47. The strength of the crocodile is in the water.
- 48. The woman who always complains and is never satisfied with anything is like an annoying flea on the foot.
- 49. The wrong-headed fool who refuses counsel, will come to grief.
- 50. Two wives, two pots of poison.
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