Quotes about yoruba, page 5

The butterfly that brushes against thorns will tear its wings.

The person who has been a slave from birth does not value rebellion.

When the white man is about to leave a garden for good, he wrecks it.

When wood breaks it can be repaired, but ivory breaks forever.

Where you will sit when you are old shows where you stood in youth.

A proverb is the horse that can carry one swiftly to the discovery of ideas.

If we stand tall it is because we stand on the backs of those who came before us.

One takes care of one's own: when a bachelor roasts yam, he share's it with his sheep.

The man who has bread to eat does not appreciate the severity of a famine.

The pot-lid is always badly off: the pot gets all the sweet, the lid nothing but steam.

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