13 Nigerian Proverbs about Till
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Not to know the good we have Till time has stolen the cherish'd gift away, Is cause of half the misery that we feel, And makes the world the wilderness it is.2.
A bird that flies from the ground onto an anthill, does not know that it is still on the ground.3.
A farmer does not boast that he has had a good harvest until his stock of yams lasts till the following harvest season.4.
A man who is advised and he takes it, is still a man who acts from his own free will.5.
When a woman cannot have good palm-nuts to give her rich oil, she still has to maintain decency in order to remain one of those that sell good quality oil.6.
Antagonism is not good for fowls, and it is not good for goats; worse still, it is not good for human beings.7.
If one would not eat pounded yam for its own sake, one can still eat it for the sake of the soup that goes with it.8.
One must have to wait till the evening of one's life time to know what gratitude to pay to one's guardian spirit.9.
If hunger forces a farmer in a particular year to eat both his yam tubers and the seed-yams, the succeeding years would still be worse because he would have no yams to eat and none to plant.10.
If the owner of two adjacent farms cannot be friends, then they must wait till their next reincarnation to be able to make friends.11.
Even when fire has done its very worst, one still has to resort to it.12.
The gods may still send a gentle breeze when they want to bless us.13.
Look for a black goat while it is still daytime.13 Proverbs
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