451 Nigerian Proverbs / Page 41
- 401. When a face is sullen it remains there to be seen on its owner.
 - 402. When a fire starts from the shrine, no precaution can be possible.
- 403. When a fowl gets to a new town, it stands on one leg until it knows that it is a town where people stand on their two legs.
- 404. When a man finds that he was wrong to have refused to eat, he should leave his anger and play a harp to call for harmony.
- 405. When a man loses his prestige, he does not regain it by going to where he is not known.
- 406. When a palm-branch reaches its height, it gives way for a fresh one to grow.
- 407. When a person regrets endlessly, he gets to pay more for what he regrets.
- 408. When a ripe fruit sees an honest man, it drops.
- 409. When a sickle is drawn, it in turn draws the tree to which it is hooked.
- 410. When a soup is unpalatable, and the paste of the pounded yam that goes with it is not smooth, that is the time to know a man who loves to eat pounded yam.
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