Without retaliation, evils would one day become extinct from the world.
Words are sweet but they can never replace food.
You can’t jump from one tree to another but you can from one man to another.
You can’t use your hand to force the sun to set.
You cannot compare the living with the dead.
You cannot roast corn with two eyes.
You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds.
You do not look for a black sheep at night.
You do not need a big stick to break a cock’s head.
You know who you love, but you can’t know who loves you
A child who has no mother will not have scars to show on his back.
A child who is carried on the back will not know how far the journey is.
A child’s face is his mirror.
A clay pot of water is never hot-tempered.
A crowd is like a smouldering log which can spark into a flame at any time.
A diviner cannot accurately divine his own future.
A family name is not cooked and eaten, one’s life is the thing.
A farmer does not boast that he has had a good harvest until his stock of yams lasts till the following harvest season.
A farmer does not conclude by the mere look of it that a corn is unripe; he tears it open for examination.
A farmer who would not work inside the rain and would not work under the sun, would have nothing to harvest at the end of the farming year
