Famous Proverbs
533 Proverbs about Till / Page 33
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One may make up a soft bed for somebody, but still it will be hard to sleep in.322.
Beware of a quiet dog and still water.323.
A farmer does not boast that he has had a good harvest until his stock of yams lasts till the following harvest season.324.
A man who is advised and he takes it, is still a man who acts from his own free will.325.
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.326.
Antagonism is not good for fowls, and it is not good for goats; worse still, it is not good for human beings.327.
If one would not eat pounded yam for its own sake, one can still eat it for the sake of the soup that goes with it.328.
One must have to wait till the evening of one's life time to know what gratitude to pay to one's guardian spirit.329.
If hunger forces a farmer in a particular year to eat both his yam tubers and the seed-yams, the succeeding years would still be worse because he would have no yams to eat and none to plant.330.
If the owner of two adjacent farms cannot be friends, then they must wait till their next reincarnation to be able to make friends.