2049 African Proverbs / Page 77
- 761. If a dog bites you, you don't attack it but you attack its owner.
 - 762. If a frog leaves the swamp for the mountains, it means it is in danger.
- 763. If a man makes soup of his tears, ask him not for broth.
- 764. If a man returns from a long journey and no one says welcome back to him he feels like one who has not arrived.
- 765. If a man rides on the back of a tiger, he should never be surprised if he ends up in its tummy.
- 766. If a mother steals with a child stripped in the back what do you expect of the child.
- 767. If a soldier doesn't have ambitions to become a general is not a good soldier.
- 768. If a tree is cursed even its shade is unclean.
- 769. If all snakes live together in one place who would approach them.
- 770. If an insect as ever bit you when you see it, you kill it or run away.
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