Wise Sayings

·         A rat that has only one hole does not live long.

·         He whom the gods want to kill, they first make mad

·         Only a fool tests the depth of a river with both feet

·         Knowledge is like a garden, if it is not cultivated it cannot be harvested

·         If you offend ask for pardon, if offended please forgive

·         A restless feet may work into a snake pit

·         A man who pays respect to the great paves a way for his own greatness

·         Do not call the forest that shelters you a jungle

·         Wherever a man goes to dwell, his character goes with him

·         When dry bones are mentioned in a proverb , old women become uneasy

·         A person is a person because of other persons

·         By the time the fool has learned the game the players have dispersed

·         A bird will always use another birds feather to feather its own nest

·         You cannot keep goat and yam together

·         The mouth which eats does not talk

·         When a woman is hungry she says, “ Roast something for the children that they might eat”

·         I will help in spending your money starts from borrowing of match sticks

·         It is the short name of theft that they call pilfering

·         If you don’t mind my shit when you bite my buttocks, I will not mind you brain when I bite your head.

·         You cannot divorce a woman and still be admiring her waistline.

·         It is the king’s goat that ate the king’s yam.

·         It is not hunger that makes a cat to be smaller than a tiger: It is its nature.

·         The cane that was used to beat the first wife is on the roof top for the second wife

·         If a toad jumps around in the daytime, it is either chasing something or something is chasing it