451 Nigerian Proverbs / Page 28
- 271. Once a cock begins to crow, it never again becomes dumb.
 - 272. One can only try to get what one can from the head of an elephant, no one ever carries it home.
- 273. One cannot go back to the farmer from whom one borrowed seed-yams to plant to say that the beetles have eaten up the seed-yams.
- 274. One cry of "Thief!" and the whole marketplace is on the lookout.
- 275. One does not become a master diviner in a day. A forest is not made in a season. The swoop of an eagle has seen many seasons and floods...
- 276. One finger cannot remove lice from the head.
- 277. One goat cannot carry another goat's tail.
- 278. One must have to wait till the evening of one's life time to know what gratitude to pay to one's guardian spirit.
- 279. One must row in whichever boat one finds one's self.
- 280. One pebble doesn't make a floor.
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