The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
Source: In My Soul Looks Back, 'Less I Forget, by Dorothy Winbush Riley, 1995.
-- Wole Soyinka, (Jul 13 1934-____), Nigerian playwright, novelist, critic; He wrote of W. Africa satirically with a tragic sense of obstacles to human progress; first African, first black to win the Nobel Prize Lit., 1986.