Open your mouth before you eat.
More Mauritanian Proverbs:
Before one cooks, one must have the meat.Mauritanian
He who has no spoon will burn his hands.
Mauritanian
He whose clothes are too fine, shall go about in rags.
Mauritanian
It is only the water that is spilled; the bowl is not broken!
Mauritanian
Too large a morsel chokes the child.
Mauritanian
One must talk little, and listen a lot.
Mauritanian