451 Nigerian Proverbs / Page 11
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If you have run out of gunpowder, use your gun as a club.202.
If you neglect the pot, it boils over and extinguishes the fire.203.
If you put a razor in your mouth, you will spit blood.204.
If you rise too early, the dew will wet you.205.
If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you don't wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes.206.
If you want to give a sick man medicine, let him first be really ill -- so that he can see how well the medicine works.207.
If your parents take care of you up to the time you cut your teeth, you take care of them when they lose theirs.208.
It is a lazy man who says "it is only because I have no time that my farm is overgrown with weeds".209.
It is a pot of water that is already half full that the world would like to help in filling to the brim.210.
It is an irresponsible adult that creates enmity because of a disagreement that arises between two children.211.
It is an unthinking man who achieves prosperity, and then finds with time, that his body can no longer pass through the door.212.
It is by the strength of their number that the ants in the field are able to carry their prey to the nest.213.
It is for saying that he has no time that the monkey's body became over-grown with long hairs.214.
It is from a small seed that the giant Iroko tree has its beginning.215.
It is he who has no place to call at that moves fast through life.216.
It is little by little that a bird builds its nest.217.
It is more fun doing evil than putting it right.218.
It is not enough to run, one must arrive and know when one has arrived.219.
It is not only the fox, even the snail arrives at its destination.220.
It is not only the hare, the tortoise arrives also at the destination.