451 Nigerian Proverbs / Page 2
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A fight between grasshoppers is a joy to the crow.22.
A fowl does not forget where it lays it eggs.23.
A friendly person is never a good-for-nothing.24.
A glorious past is the work of a glorious man.25.
A goat owned by two people sleeps outside.26.
A good name is better than gold.27.
A herbalist that refuses to ask laymen what leaves he looks for in the bush, must have difficulties getting what he wants.28.
A housewife who complains that there is not enough foodstuff in the market should remember that if her husband adds to what is already available, there would be more for everyone.29.
A hunter who has only one arrow does not shoot with careless aim.30.
A laughing jackal portends a witch in the rafters.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.