79 Igbo Proverbs / Page 5
- 41. If you decide to eat a toad, you should at least select one that is big.
 - 42. If you wish to eat a mushroom, you cannot consider what the mushroom fed on.
- 43. In the daytime do we chase the black goat.
- 44. Knowing but not telling it is what kills old men. Hearing but not heeding it is what kills young men.
- 45. Let the kite hawk have a perch, and let the eagle also have a perch. Whichever begrudges the other the right to perch, may he break a wing.
- 46. No one gets a mouthful of food by picking between another person's teeth.
- 47. One first drives off the fox, before taking the chickens home and blaming them for straying.
- 48. One who knows everything at times draws water with a basket.
- 49. Stream said that it is because it has nobody to direct it that... it goes in a zigzag way.
- 50. Swearing in the name of one god while at the shrine of another god.
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