451 Nigerian Proverbs / Page 4
- 31. A lizard that fell from the top of a tree wastes its time looking back to where it fell from; if there was anything good the lizard deserved, it could not have missed it while it was there on top of the tree.
 - 32. A lounging lizard catches no crickets.
- 33. A man can not sit down alone to plan for prosperity.
- 34. A man does not wander far from where his corn is roasting.
- 35. A man that begets a barren cannot have a grand child.
- 36. A man who eases himself in public, gives cause to others to despise him.
- 37. A man who has one finger pointing at another has three pointing towards himself.
- 38. A man who is advised and he takes it, is still a man who acts from his own free will.
- 39. A man who is trampled to death by an elephant is a man who is blind and deaf.
- 40. A man who lives alone is either always overworked, or always overfed.
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