Famous Proverbs
464 Proverbs about Niger / Page 30
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A person who picks something and decides to make it his own, ought to think how he would feel if he was the person who lost the property he picked.292.
He who is called a man must behave like a man.293.
If one would not eat pounded yam for its own sake, one can still eat it for the sake of the soup that goes with it.294.
One must have to wait till the evening of one's life time to know what gratitude to pay to one's guardian spirit.295.
If hunger forces a farmer in a particular year to eat both his yam tubers and the seed-yams, the succeeding years would still be worse because he would have no yams to eat and none to plant.296.
Sometimes the rain might force a man more than once to seek shelter under the same tree.297.
When the roots of a tree begin to decay, it spreads death to the branches.298.
It is the fear of what tomorrow may bring that makes the tortoise to carry his house along with him wherever he goes.299.
Let's fight, let's fight, no one knows whom fighting would favor.300.
Two men quarreling do not share the same seat on a canoe.