When water stays for long it stinks.
More African Proverbs:
If you want people to understand you, you speak their language.African
Not all the baboons that enter a maize field come out satisfied.
African
When one man's curse falls on a person another one breaks it.
African
He who doesn't know where he is going doesn't know whether or when he will arrive.
African
Every old man was once a young man but not every young man will become an old man.
African
An elephant cannot thin to a cow size.
African