61 Yoruba Proverbs / Page 5
- 41. The pot-lid is always badly off: the pot gets all the sweet, the lid nothing but steam.
 - 42. The young cannot teach tradition to the old.
- 43. The young cock crows as he hears the old one.
- 44. Those who die through ignorance are many; those who die because they are intelligent are few.
- 45. Truth came to market but could not be sold; however, we buy lies with ready cash.
- 46. We must blame the thief first before we say that where the owner put her property improper.
- 47. What you give you get, ten times over.
- 48. When hunger gets inside you, nothing else can.
- 49. When the door is closed, you must learn to slide across the crack of the sill.
- 50. When the rain falls in the valley, the hill gets angry.
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