451 Nigerian Proverbs / Page 19
- 181. 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.
 - 182. If men were now to turn their hostility towards the cat, it would not be long before the domestic cat becomes a wild animal.
- 183. If neither animal nor vegetable you be, then mineral you are. If one finger brought oil it soiled others.
- 184. If one finger brought oil it soiled others.
- 185. If one goes to a land where they cut off ears, he should cut off his own and contribute them.
- 186. If one imitates the upright, one becomes upright; if one imitates the crooked, one becomes crooked.
- 187. If one were to remove every smoking wood from a fire and condemn it as bad, one would be killing the fire itself.
- 188. 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.
- 189. If the bull would throw you, lie down.
- 190. If the load is too heavy for someone to carry, one would be better off to give the load to the ground to carry.
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