79 Igbo Proverbs / Page 3
- 21. A snake that swallows his friend will have a tail sticking out of his mouth.
 - 22. A snake that swallows its neighbor will have a tail sticking out of its mouth.
- 23. A travelled child knows better than the old man who sits at home.
- 24. A wayward woman is like the weaver bird. She uses her perch on one tree to scout other trees.
- 25. A woman who needs to borrow a calabash cannot count on going early to the stream.
- 26. All you can tell about a big belly is that the owner has had a lot to eat, not what he had to eat.
- 27. An udara fruit that falls by the roadside must want to be picked up and eaten.
- 28. An udara fruit that falls on the side of the road is asking to be eaten.
- 29. At whatever age a child gets a problem, at the same age she has to shoulder the responsibility.
- 30. Bump-thump-scratch. It's all on a big man's skin.
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