You think of water when the well is empty.
More Ethiopian Proverbs:
A silly daughter teaches her mother how to bear children.Ethiopian
To one who knows no better, a small garden is a forest.
Ethiopian
Advise and counsel him; if he does not listen, let adversity teach him.
Ethiopian
Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.
Ethiopian
While trying to pull down something from the antique she lost what she had under her armpit.
Ethiopian
Woman without man is like a field without seed.
Ethiopian