Anyone who wears a crown has outgrown childhood.

What it means

Wearing a crown brings weight as well as status, and there's no going back to childhood. Authority comes with the expectation that you have truly grown into it.

Yoruba · West Africa

Source and context

From: Yoruba, West Africa

Source: Yoruba (Nigeria) proverb (Eni daade ti kuro lomode), translation and explanation from "20 Yoruba proverbs and their meaning," Edugist (edugist.org)

The source explains it: grow up and embrace the responsibilities of adulthood. The wording of the meaning is ours.

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