451 Nigerian Proverbs / Page 14
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Mud houses don't burn.262.
No frog is tied by a rope to a pond.263.
No matter how dark it is, the hand always knows the way to the mouth.264.
No one feels the pains that arise from unintended injury.265.
No sane person sharpens his machete to cut a banana tree.266.
Not to know is bad, not to wish to know is worse.267.
Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse.268.
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.269.
Not to oversee workmen, is to leave your purse open.270.
Old age does not come in just one day.271.
Once a cock begins to crow, it never again becomes dumb.272.
One can only try to get what one can from the head of an elephant, no one ever carries it home.273.
One cannot go back to the farmer from whom one borrowed seed-yams to plant to say that the beetles have eaten up the seed-yams.274.
One cry of "Thief!" and the whole marketplace is on the lookout.275.
One does not become a master diviner in a day. A forest is not made in a season. The swoop of an eagle has seen many seasons and floods...276.
One finger cannot remove lice from the head.277.
One goat cannot carry another goat's tail.278.
One must have to wait till the evening of one's life time to know what gratitude to pay to one's guardian spirit.279.
One must row in whichever boat one finds one's self.280.
One pebble doesn't make a floor.