THE SAYINGS OF OUR ELDERS

• If you damage the character of another, you damage your own.
• No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.
• A chattering bird builds no nest.
• A single bracelet does not jingle.
• A good deed is something one returns.
• We will water the thorn for the sake of the rose.
• If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off your lips.
• A man who has bread to eat does not appreciate the severity of a famine.
• A coward dies many times before his death while a brave dies but once.
• When you change kings, you change customs.

BY OLALEKAN ODUNTAN Copyrights: © 2015