79 Igbo Proverbs / Page 7
- 61. The same rain that drenches the slave also drenches the slave driver.
 - 62. The skunk rat can get as fat and plump as he pleases. If his whole hind leg costs one anini, I still will not buy it.
- 63. The world is like a goat's udder. It does not yile any milk, unless you punch and squeeze at it.
- 64. Until lions have their own historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.
- 65. What gives the child the itch has already given him the fingernails for scratching it.
- 66. Whatever the type of firewood found in a place, it is usually good enough for the people of that place to cook with.
- 67. When a drunk meets a mad man, he learns the difference between being merely drunk and truly mad.
- 68. When a drunken man meets a mad man, he learns the difference between being merely drunk and being truly mad.
- 69. When a once-beautiful piece of cloth has turned into rags, no one remembers that it was woven by Ukwa master weavers.
- 70. When a person is not as she used to be, she does not behave as she used to behave.
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