451 Nigerian Proverbs / Page 16
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Success is 10% ability, and 90% sweat.302.
Talks that are considered to be important must be made to drag on for so long as to make even the deaf begin to hear it.303.
That which brings misfortune is not big.304.
The advice of a woman ends with "Oh, if I had only known!"305.
The alcohol that is insufficient for a whole town ought not to intoxicate one man.306.
The bird flies high, but always returns to earth.307.
The bird that remembers its flockmates, never missed the way.308.
The blind say that eyes have no sense of smell.309.
The body of joy is not so big.310.
The bottom of wealth is sometimes a dirty thing to behold.311.
The Child of an elephant will not be a dwarf.312.
The cricket is never blinded by the sand of its burrowing.313.
The crocodile does not die under the water so that we can call the monkey to celebrate its funeral.314.
The crocodile drinks from the same river as the centipede.315.
The cry of the hyena and the loss of the goat are one.316.
The day you are leaving is not the time to start your preparations.317.
The death that will kill a man begins as an appetite.318.
The disobedient fowl obeys in a pot of soup.319.
The drum sounds when the hawk appears wit ha rabbit.320.
The dying man is not saved by medicine.