When you play with a lion, do not put your hand in its mouth.
More Swahili Proverbs:
One finger canot kill a louse.Swahili
When brothers quarrel, take a hoe and go and dig; and when they make it up, take a basket and patter the crop.
Swahili
It is not hard to nurse a pregnency, but it is hard to bring up a child.
Swahili
A hen does not break her own eggs.
Swahili
He who eats with you will not die with you except he who was born with you.
Swahili
Patience attracts happiness; it brings near that which is far.
Swahili