61 Yoruba Proverbs / Page 3
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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.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.