Nigerian Proverbs on Man (28 Proverbs)
- A single man can not build a house.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- When a soup is unpalatable, and the paste of the pounded yam that goes with it is not smooth, that is the time to know a man who loves to eat pounded yam.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- A strong man is remembered on the day of the fight, and a gluttony on the day pounded yam is surplus.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- When it is the turn of a man to become the head of a village, he does not need to diviner to tell him that he is destined to rule.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- Beetles that roll balls out of human faeces demand to be hidden away from the rich man, because there is nothing he wouldn't buy.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- By being grateful, a man makes himself deserving of yet another kindness.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- Does a man not know when he has pepper in his eyes? If we forget yesterday, how shall we remember tomorrow.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- He who is called a man must behave like a man.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- However much the world degenerates, man shall never find worms in salt.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- If a man is not clean and smooth, there is nothing he can really do about pride.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- If men were now to turn their hostility towards the cat, it would not be long before the domestic cat becomes a wild animal.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- It is one word of advice that one needs to give to a wise man, and that word keeps multiplying in his mind.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- Sometimes the rain might force a man more than once to seek shelter under the same tree.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- The alcohol that is insufficient for a whole town ought not to intoxicate one man.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- A glorious past is the work of a glorious man.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- To eat from the same pot with another man, is to take an oath of perpetual friendship with him.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- A man can not sit down alone to plan for prosperity.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- When a man finds that he was wrong to have refused to eat, he should leave his anger and play a harp to call for harmony.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- A man who is advised and he takes it, is still a man who acts from his own free will.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- When a man loses his prestige, he does not regain it by going to where he is not known.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- A man who is trampled to death by an elephant is a man who is blind and deaf.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- When a ripe fruit sees an honest man, it drops.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- The one-eyed man thanks God only when he sees a man blind in both eyes.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- The dying man is not saved by medicine.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- The death that will kill a man begins as an appetite.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- Man is like pepper -- you only know him when you've ground him.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- A man does not wander far from where his corn is roasting.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- An old man is there to talk.
(Nigerian Proverb)
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