451 Nigerian Proverbs / Page 21
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When a face is sullen it remains there to be seen on its owner.402.
When a fire starts from the shrine, no precaution can be possible.403.
When a fowl gets to a new town, it stands on one leg until it knows that it is a town where people stand on their two legs.404.
When a man finds that he was wrong to have refused to eat, he should leave his anger and play a harp to call for harmony.405.
When a man loses his prestige, he does not regain it by going to where he is not known.406.
When a palm-branch reaches its height, it gives way for a fresh one to grow.407.
When a person regrets endlessly, he gets to pay more for what he regrets.408.
When a ripe fruit sees an honest man, it drops.409.
When a sickle is drawn, it in turn draws the tree to which it is hooked.410.
When a soup is unpalatable, and the paste of the pounded yam that goes with it is not smooth, that is the time to know a man who loves to eat pounded yam.411.
When a woman cannot have good palm-nuts to give her rich oil, she still has to maintain decency in order to remain one of those that sell good quality oil.412.
When a woman has ten children, there is nothing that happens in the night that she does not know about.413.
When a woman prepares a dish which others find unpalatable, she says that she prepared it to suit her own taste.414.
When an elephant falls, meat is sure to be surplus for those who follow the hunter.415.
When an only kolanut is presented with love, it carries with it more value than might otherwise be associated with a whole pod of several kolanuts.416.
When it is the turn of a man to become the head of a village, he does not need to diviner to tell him that he is destined to rule.417.
When man pikin dey piss, him dey hold something for hand. Woman wey try-am, go piss for her hand.418.
When mother cow is cropping grass, her young one watches her mouth.419.
When one is in trouble, one remembers God.420.
When one is taking a chicken from its roost, the hen is bound to attack with at least its claws.