If hunger forces a farmer in a particular year to eat both his yam tubers and the seed-yams, the succeeding years would still be worse because he would have no yams to eat and none to plant.
More Nigerian Proverbs:
It is the toothless animal that arrives first at the base of the fruit tree, to eat his fill before others arrive.Nigerian
Earth is the queen of beds.
Nigerian
Greatness and beauty do not belong to the gods alone.
Nigerian
Our examples are like seeds on a windy day, they spread far and wide.
Nigerian
When a person regrets endlessly, he gets to pay more for what he regrets.
Nigerian
You do not need a big stick to break a cock's head.
Nigerian