Let the kite hawk have a perch, and let the eagle also have a perch. Whichever begrudges the other the right to perch, may he break a wing.
More Igbo Proverbs:
A person who happens by a neighbor's house at dinner time, and is invited to join the meal, does not swallow such large morsels as to break the string of pearls around his neck.Igbo
The world is like a goat's udder. It does not yile any milk, unless you punch and squeeze at it.
Igbo
He who spits towards the sky is spitting on his face.
Igbo
The prince is never guilty in his father's court.
Igbo
The lizard says that he knows the condition of his underbelly.?The reason he has it pressed against the ground.
Igbo
Swearing in the name of one god while at the shrine of another god.
Igbo