THE SAYINGS OF OUR ELDERS

• If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.
• Nothing is so difficult that diligence can not master it.
• Words are sweet, but they never take the place of food.
• You don't need pain killers for another man's headache.
• The wind does not break a tree that bends.
• Words are like eggs: when they are hatched, they have wings.
• A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles the difficulties.
• No matter how long the night, the day is sure to come.
• Death is like a robe everyone has to wear.
• The lizard that jumped from the high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no one else did.

BY OLALEKAN ODUNTAN Copyrights: © 2015