When a woman prepares a dish which others find unpalatable, she says that she prepared it to suit her own taste.
When a woman cannot have good palm-nuts to give her rich oil, she still has to maintain decency in order to remain one of those that sell good quality oil.
When a woman has ten children, there is nothing that happens in the night that she does not know about.
If you want to give a sick man medicine, let him first be really ill — so that he can see how well the medicine works.
It would not be good if one becomes the only person in the world, and that is why they crow every morning to show their number.
Those who derive fun watching lunatics, out to have one as a child or relation to know the pains of it.
If the owner of two adjacent farms cannot be friends, then they must wait till their next reincarnation to be able to make friends.
If the owner of a calabash calls it a worthless calabash, others will join him to use it to pack rubbish.
If the load is too heavy for someone to carry, one would be better off to give the load to the ground to carry.
One must have to wait till the evening of one’s life time to know what gratitude to pay to one’s guardian spirit.
It is by the strength of their number that the ants in the field are able to carry their prey to the nest.