You may be clever but you can never lose your shadow.
More Igbo Proverbs:
In the daytime do we chase the black goat.Igbo
If the kernels are not finished, the jaw will not rest.
Igbo
No one gets a mouthful of food by picking between another person's teeth.
Igbo
A person who happens by a neighbor's house at dinner time, and is invited to join the meal, does not swallow such large morsels as to break the string of pearls around his neck.
Igbo
If a baby crawls up to me and pinches me, I will get on my knees and pinch him back.
Igbo
When a poor man gets a little money, his thoughts go off in ten different directions.
Igbo