It is an irresponsible adult that creates enmity because of a disagreement that arises between two children.
It is an unthinking man who achieves prosperity, and then finds with time, that his body can no longer pass through the door.
It is one word of advice that one needs to give to a wise man, and that word keeps multiplying in his mind.
It is the fear of what tomorrow may bring that makes the tortoise to carry his house along with him wherever he goes.
It is wisdom to prevent someone from whom one cannot accept repayment to have access to one’s valuable possessions.
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.
We can not choose who our relatives should be, even though we may come to like some better than others.
When the right hand washes the left hand and the left hand washes the right hand, both hands become clean.
When a man finds that he was wrong to have refused to eat, he should leave his anger and play a harp to call for harmony.
When a fowl gets to a new town, it stands on one leg until it knows that it is a town where people stand on their two legs.
When a dying man cries, its because of what he wishes he would have done in the world he is leaving behind.
If a child is not well-behaved, she is not sent by the mother to go alone to the market to buy things for her.
If a child shoots an arrow that reaches the top of a tall palm tree, then it must be that an elderly person carved the arrow for him.
If a person who curses another is not better than the person he curses, a request is never made of him to rescind the curse.
If men were now to turn their hostility towards the cat, it would not be long before the domestic cat becomes a wild animal.
If one were to remove every smoking wood from a fire and condemn it as bad, one would be killing the fire itself.
If one would not eat pounded yam for its own sake, one can still eat it for the sake of the soup that goes with it.
Beetles that roll balls out of human faeces demand to be hidden away from the rich man, because there is nothing he wouldn’t buy.
If you fail to take away a strong man’s sword when he is on the ground, will you do it when he gets up?
The spirit that keeps one going when one has no choice of what else to do must not be mistaken for valour.
When it is the turn of a man to become the head of a village, he does not need to diviner to tell him that he is destined to rule.
