451 Nigerian Proverbs / Page 2
21. 
A fight between grasshoppers is a joy to the crow.
22. 
A fowl does not forget where it lays it eggs.
23. 
A friendly person is never a good-for-nothing.
24. 
A glorious past is the work of a glorious man.
25. 
A goat owned by two people sleeps outside.
26. 
A good name is better than gold.
27. 
A herbalist that refuses to ask laymen what leaves he looks for in the bush, must have difficulties getting what he wants.
28. 
A housewife who complains that there is not enough foodstuff in the market should remember that if her husband adds to what is already available, there would be more for everyone.
29. 
A hunter who has only one arrow does not shoot with careless aim.
30. 
A laughing jackal portends a witch in the rafters.
31. 
A lizard that fell from the top of a tree wastes its time looking back to where it fell from; if there was anything good the lizard deserved, it could not have missed it while it was there on top of the tree.
32. 
A lounging lizard catches no crickets.
33. 
A man can not sit down alone to plan for prosperity.
34. 
A man does not wander far from where his corn is roasting.
35. 
A man that begets a barren cannot have a grand child.
36. 
A man who eases himself in public, gives cause to others to despise him.
37. 
A man who has one finger pointing at another has three pointing towards himself.
38. 
A man who is advised and he takes it, is still a man who acts from his own free will.
39. 
A man who is trampled to death by an elephant is a man who is blind and deaf.
40. 
A man who lives alone is either always overworked, or always overfed.
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