Our elders quote the cock as saying that "it would not be good if one becomes the only person in the world, and that is why they crow every morning to show their number". (Nigerian Proverb)
When a dying man cries, it is not because of where he is going which he knows nothing about, but because of what he wishes he would have done in the world he is leaving behind. (Nigerian Proverb)
Without retaliation, evils would one day become extinct from the world. (Nigerian Proverb)
Not to know the good we have Till time has stolen the cherish'd gift away, Is cause of half the misery that we feel, And makes the world the wilderness it is. (Nigerian Proverb)