Great Throughts Treasury

"There is no god like one’s stomach: we must sacrifice to it every day."

"When hunger gets inside you, nothing else can."

"Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor."

"A goat that eats onions is just in a hurry, is that not the ingredient with which it will be cooked?"

"A stammerer would eventually say "father""

"A man with sweet food before him cannot understand the bitterness of famine."

"A knife that is sharp (nevertheless) does not carve its own handle."

"A for warned battle will not kill a clever cripple."

"A man cannot give what he does not have good or bad behavior is a reflection of one?s background."

"A sculptor is summoned and the woodpecker shows up."

"A protruded tooth is a problem to the mouth."

"A man's first wife never complains of neglect from the penis, the first morsel never complains of insufficient sauce"

"A one-eyed person does not attempt standing somersaults."

"A motherless child shouldn?t allow his/her back to develop sore."

"Before stone a bird, you should put yourself in its position."

"Anonymous: You should be extremely careful of situations that have a past history of danger"

"Because of three, three days visit a trader cannot shit in his Shed."

"Cursing a deaf in anger has no effect."

"A stinging man does not adorn himself."

"Even if the youth has as many clothes as his father, he has not worn so many out."

"Be careful what you do unto others it may boomerang towards you or someone close to you"

"All lizards lie flat on their stomach and it is difficult to determine which has a stomach ache (Everyone looks the same on the outside but everyone has problems that are invisible to outsiders)"

"Charity begins at home"

"Elders cannot be in the market where women strapped on children with crooked necks."

"Father hears everything because people tell him."

"Farms cannot belong to father and son without a boundary."

"Excessive envy of others causes one to take on witching and makes one become a wizard."

"Friends do not make space for three. Two is what friends allow."

"Give and take is what makes the life easy, a farmer that want to eat bread would send yam to the baker."

"He that doesn?t want to be splashed with water should not come near the stream."

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

"Fire is not something one conceals under one's clothing."

"He who throws a stone in the market will hit his relative"

"If a big masquerade claims it doesn't see the smaller masquerade, the small masquerade will also claim it doesn't see the big masquerade."

"If an important man does not respect those less important than himself, less important men will in turn refuse to give him his due."

"However far a stream flows, it never forgets its origin."

"If one chases one?s goat into the house of a troublesome man, one stops the chase right there."

"If you don?t mind my shit when you bite my buttocks, I will not mind you brain when I bite you head."

"If the lion wants to barb its mane it is not a dog that will be the barber."

"If you are a man of substance don?t called your brother a lazy man; as time and fortune is in the hand of providence."

"If you never give palm wine to your elders, you will never learn their proverbs."

"Inability top refuse errand running, kills horse in battle."

"It is from the threshold of the coward that we will point to the ruin and grave of warrior."

"It is more profitable to exercise patience while seeking a durable solution, in difficult situations than to hastily accept an ill-conceived/prepared solution."

"It is in one?s yard that one eats a rat with a navel."

"It is he-who-is-guilty-but-refuses-to-accept-the-guilt that brings warfare into a town."

"It is not easy to say that ?he is greater than I?: the quarrel based on envy does not end on time."

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

"It is the man with torn in his flesh that would look for the assistance of the knife owner."

"It is the king?s goat that ate the king?s yam."