61 Yoruba Proverbs / Page 6
- 51. When the white man is about to leave a garden for good, he wrecks it.
 - 52. When wood breaks it can be repaired, but ivory breaks forever.
- 53. When you stand with the blessings of your mother and God, it matters not who stands against you.
- 54. When your neighbor's horse falls into a pit, you should not rejoice at it, for your own child may fall into it too.
- 55. Where you will sit when you are old shows where you stood in youth.
- 56. Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.
- 57. Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.
- 58. Work is the medicine for poverty.
- 59. You can't stop a pig from wallowing in the mud.
- 60. You cannot shave a man's head in his absence.
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