61 Yoruba Proverbs / Page 4
- 31. Only what you have combated for will last.
 - 32. Patching makes a garment last long.
- 33. Rather than an abatement of her viciousness, a witch gives birth to only female children and witchcraft multiplies.
- 34. Silence is an attribute of the dead; he who is alive speaks.
- 35. Stretch your hands as far as they reach, grab all you can grab.
- 36. The bell rings loudest in your own home.
- 37. The butterfly that brushes against thorns will tear its wings.
- 38. The hand of the child cannot reach the shelf, nor the hand of the adult get through the neck of the gourd.
- 39. The man who has bread to eat does not appreciate the severity of a famine.
- 40. The person who has been a slave from birth does not value rebellion.
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