Before you milk a cow tie it up.
More South African Proverbs:
The wrong-headed fool who refuses counsel, will come to grief.South African
The seed waits for its garden or ground where it will be sown.
South African
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the nation and its destiny.
South African
Even the maid has a family.
South African
The quail waits for the stick; the idle loiterer about a place waits for a kick from an old boot.
South African
If he keeps on imitating everybody the monkey will one day cut his own throat.
South African