61 Yoruba Proverbs / Page 2
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If you damage the character of another, you damage your own.22.
If you don't sell your head, no one will buy it.23.
It is a thief that can trace the footsteps of another thief on a rock.24.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.25.
Many words do not fill a basket.26.
Medicine left in the bottle can't help.27.
No one can uproot the tree which God has planted.28.
Nobody knows the mysteries which lie at the bottom of the ocean.29.
One takes care of one's own: when a bachelor roasts yam, he share's it with his sheep.30.
One who waits for chance may wait a year.31.
Only what you have combated for will last.32.
Patching makes a garment last long.33.
Rather than an abatement of her viciousness, a witch gives birth to only female children and witchcraft multiplies.34.
Silence is an attribute of the dead; he who is alive speaks.35.
Stretch your hands as far as they reach, grab all you can grab.36.
The bell rings loudest in your own home.37.
The butterfly that brushes against thorns will tear its wings.38.
The hand of the child cannot reach the shelf, nor the hand of the adult get through the neck of the gourd.39.
The man who has bread to eat does not appreciate the severity of a famine.40.
The person who has been a slave from birth does not value rebellion.