451 Nigerian Proverbs / Page 22
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When the elderly ones in a house travel, the younger ones quickly grow in experience.422.
When the hyena drinks, the dog can only look on.423.
When the laborer is praised, his cutlass begins to cut more keenly.424.
When the mice laugh at the cat, there is a hole nearby.425.
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.426.
When the music changes, so does the dance.427.
When the next house is on fire, 'tis high time to look to your own.428.
When the right hand washes the left hand and the left hand washes the right hand, both hands become clean.429.
When the roots of a tree begin to decay, it spreads death to the branches.430.
When the teeth fall off, the nose is sure to collapse.431.
When will the goat be strong enough to kill a leopard.432.
When you are eating with the devil, you must use a long spoon.433.
When you are sick you promise a goat, but when you are well again make do with a chicken.434.
When you cook a guinea fowl, the partridge gets a headache.435.
Wherever something stands, another thing stands beside it.436.
Who says the oasis in the desert is happy because of its hidden spring of water?437.
Whoever says "let's fight" does not know who will be victorious.438.
Without History, No Life.439.
Without knowing a person we must not hate him.440.
Without knowing a way thoroughly at day time, never attempt to pass it at night.