COMMON-SENSE 1. A man who is trampled to death by an elephant is a man who is blind and deaf. 2. A hunter who has only one arrow does not shoot with careless aim. 3. A mouse that removes the palm-nut that turns out to be the bait of a trap, would already have known that the palm-nut does not ripen on the ground. 4. When a palm-branch reaches its height, it gives way for a fresh one to grow. 5. A bottle of oil warmed over the fire has no means of producing oil by itself. 6. One cannot go back to the farmer from whom one borrowed seed-yams to plant to say that the beetles have eaten up the seed- yams. 7. If one were to remove every smoking wood from a fire and condemn it as bad, one would be killing the fire itself. 8. It is wisdom to prevent someone from whom one cannot accept repayment to have access to ones valuable possessions. 9. It is the brutally outspoken man that earns enmity. 10. The elephant and the tiger do not go hunting on the same pasture. 11. A farmer does not boast that he has had a good harvest until his stock of yams lasts till the following harvest season. 12. He who pursues an innocent chicken always stumbles. 13. The fish that can see that its water is getting shallower, cannot be stranded. 14. Without knowing a way thoroughly at day time, never attempt to pass it at night. 15. It is only the tortoise that moves and carries its shell about, which it calls its house. 16. It is not enough to run, one must arrive and know when one has arrived. 17. It is a lazy man who says it is only because I have no time that my farm is overgrown with weeds. 18. A man who lives on the bank of a river does not use spittle to wash his hands. 19. We do not use our bare feet to search for hidden thorns which we have seen in day time. 20. The gods only hear one wish at a time, and nothing more. 21. When will the goat be strong enough to kill a leopard. 22. Every river knows where its water would not be soaked up into the earth, and that is where it flows past.
Posted on: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 09:23:35 +0000
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