If the owner of a calabash calls it a worthless calabash, others will join him to use it to pack rubbish.
More Nigerian Proverbs:
It is a lazy man who says "it is only because I have no time that my farm is overgrown with weeds".Nigerian
It is a lazy man who says "it is only because I have no time that my farm is overgrown with weeds".
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The gods only hear one wish at a time, and nothing more.
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Rat no dey born rabbit.
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When a ripe fruit sees an honest man, it drops.
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One cannot go back to the farmer from whom one borrowed seed-yams to plant to say that the beetles have eaten up the seed-yams.
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