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.
More Nigerian Proverbs:
A traveler to distant places should make no enemies.Nigerian
If neither animal nor vegetable you be, then mineral you are. If one finger brought oil it soiled others.
Nigerian
No sane person sharpens his machete to cut a banana tree.
Nigerian
It is an unthinking man who achieves prosperity, and then finds with time, that his body can no longer pass through the door.
Nigerian
If crocodiles eat their own eggs, what would they do to the flesh of a frog?
Nigerian
If crocodiles eat their own eggs, what would they do to the flesh of a frog?
Nigerian