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 warned 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 one’s 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 move and carries its shell about, which it call its house. 16. It is not enough to run; one must arrive and know when the 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’s 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. HARD WORK 1. A farmer does not conclude by the mere look of it that a corn is unripe; he tears it open for examination. 2. It is little by little that a bird builds its nest. 3. To do one’s duty is to eat prized fruit of honor. 4. A farmer, who would not work inside the rain and would not work under the sun, would have nothing to harvests at the end of the farming year. 5. The heap of yams you will reap depends upon the number of mounds you have plowed. 6. It is the work of one’s hands that decides what one eats for dinner-for some it is pounded yam, for others it is pounded plantain or nothing. 7. An ant- hill that is destined to become a giant ant-hill will definitely become one, no matter how many times it is destroyed by elephants. 8. He who is afraid of doing too much always does a little. 9. Sleep and indolence are not cousins of a good harvest.
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