· “It is praise worthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.’’
· “Wisdom is like a goat skin bag; every man carries his own”.
· “A boy sent by his father to steal does not go stealthily but breaks the door with his feet.”
· “When an old woman hears the dance she knows her old age deserts her.”
· “It is only when you are close to a man that you can begin to smell his breath.”
· “If a blind man does not know his own stick, tell me what else would he know.”
· “When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.”
· “A goat does not eat into a hen’s stomach no matter how friendly the two maybe”
· “A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday”
· “The inquisitive eye will only blind it own sight”
· “A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?”
· “If we fall back, can we complain that others are rushing forward?”
· “What a man does not know is greater than he”
· “Only a foolish man can go after a leopard with his bare hand”
· “In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace”
· “When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it”
· “The death that will kill a man begins as an appetite”
· “If a man sought for a companion who acted entirely like himself, he would live in solitude”
· “The greatest lair among men still speak the truth to his own son”
· “A boy who tries to wrestle with his father gets blinded by the old man’s lion cloth”
· “When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate”
· “The man that brings anti-infested faggot into his hut should not grumble when lizard begin to pay him a visit”
· “A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every- day herbs”
· “No matter how many spirits plot a man’s death, it come to nothing unless his chi (personal god), has a hand in the deliberation”
· “A man who means to buy palm wine does not hang about at home until all the palm wine in the market is sold”
· “The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation”
· “It is the fear of offence that makes men swallow poison”
· “A man of sense does not go hunting little bush rodents when his age mates are after big game”
· “No man however great is greater than his people”
· “Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache”
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