2049 African Proverbs / Page 98
- 971. It is easy to become a monk in one's old age.
 - 972. It is from listening to old men that you learn wisdom.
- 973. It is hard even for the most selfish man to eat fish in the darkness.
- 974. It is impossible to tie a knot without the thumb.
- 975. It is in the eyes of a lazy man that maize will ripen.
- 976. It is in the house of a coward that people gather and point to the tomb of yesterday's warrior.
- 977. It is Mr. Old-Man-Monkey who marries Mrs. Old-Woman-Monkey.
- 978. It is no disgrace at all to work for money.
- 979. It is not by watching a newly wed wife that she is going to become pregnant.
- 980. It is not right to ask a man with elephantiasis of the scrotum to take on small pox as well, when thousands of other people have not had even their share of small diseases.
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