Being happy is better than being king.
More Nigerian Proverbs:
Fowls will not spare a cockroach that falls in their mist.Nigerian
The house roof fights the rain, but he who is sheltered ignores it.
Nigerian
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.
Nigerian
When you cook a guinea fowl, the partridge gets a headache.
Nigerian
The advice of a woman ends with "Oh, if I had only known!"
Nigerian
What the child says, he has heard at home.
Nigerian