Famous Proverbs
464 Proverbs about Niger / Page 18
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A mouse that removes the palm-nut that turns out to be the bait of a trap, would already have known that the palm-nut does not ripen on the ground.172.
When a palm-branch reaches its height, it gives way for a fresh one to grow.173.
A bottle of oil warmed over the fire has no means of producing oil by itself.174.
One cannot go back to the farmer from whom one borrowed seed-yams to plant to say that the beetles have eaten up the seed-yams.175.
If one were to remove every smoking wood from a fire and condemn it as bad, one would be killing the fire itself.176.
It is wisdom to prevent someone from whom one cannot accept repayment to have access to one's valuable possessions.177.
It is the brutally outspoken man that earns enmity.178.
The elephant and the tiger do not go hunting on the same pasture.179.
A farmer does not boast that he has had a good harvest until his stock of yams lasts till the following harvest season.180.
He who pursues an innocent chicken always stumbles.