451 Nigerian Proverbs / Page 20
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To have no enemies is equivalent to wealth.382.
Two footsteps do not make a path.383.
Two men quarreling do not share the same seat on a canoe.384.
Two raindrops do not make a pool.385.
Ugliness with a good character is better than beauty.386.
Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.387.
Until lions have their own historians, accounts of the hunt will always celebrate the hunter.388.
Voluntary work is better than slavery.389.
Warm water never forgets that it was once cold.390.
We are what our thinking makes us.391.
We can not choose who our relatives should be, even though we may come to like some better than others.392.
We do not use our bare feet to search for hidden thorns which we have seen in day time.393.
We live by hope, but a reed never becomes an Iroko tree by dreaming.394.
What a prostitute earns she calls presents from her husband's friends.395.
What affects the nose must also affect the eyes that must weep for it.396.
What is Past is Prologue.397.
What is sensible today may be derangement at another time.398.
What the child says, he has heard at home.399.
What you do in black hair you will eat in white hair.400.
When a dying man cries, it is not because of where he is going which he knows nothing about, but because of what he wishes he would have done in the world he is leaving behind.