COMMON-SENSE
- A man who is trampled to death by an elephant is a man who is blind and deaf.
- A hunter who has only one arrow does not shoot with careless aim.
- 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.
- When a palm-branch reaches its height, it gives way for a fresh one to grow.
- A bottle of oil warmed over the fire has no means of producing oil by itself.
- 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.
- If one were to remove every smoking wood from a fire and condemn it as bad, one would be killing the fire itself.
- It is wisdom to prevent someone from whom one cannot accept repayment to have access to one's valuable possessions.
- It is the brutally outspoken man that earns enmity.
- The elephant and the tiger do not go hunting on the same pasture.
- A farmer does not boast that he has had a good harvest until his stock of yams lasts till the following harvest season.
- He who pursues an innocent chicken always stumbles.
- The fish that can see that its water is getting shallower, cannot be stranded.
- Without knowing a way thoroughly at day time, never attempt to pass it at night.
- It is only the tortoise that moves and carries its shell about, which it calls its house.
- It is not enough to run, one must arrive and know when one has arrived.
- It is a lazy man who says "it is only because I have no time that my farm is overgrown with weeds".
- A man who lives on the bank of a river does not use spittle to wash his hands.
- We do not use our bare feet to search for hidden thorns which we have seen in day time.
- The gods only hear one wish at a time, and nothing more.
- When will the goat be strong enough to kill a leopard.
- Every river knows where its water would not be soaked up into the earth, and that is where it flows past
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