- If a child shoots an arrow that reaches the top of a tall palm tree, then it must be that an elderly person carved the arrow for him.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- If a drum is not made, it is the fault of the master; but if the drum is made and is not beaten, then that is the fault of the boys.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- If a greedy eater is near a patient, such a patient can never survive.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- If a man is not clean and smooth, there is nothing he can really do about pride.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- If a person who curses another is not better than the person he curses, a request is never made of him to rescind the curse.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- If a soup is sweet, it is money that cooks it.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- If gold rusts, what will iron do?
(Nigerian Proverb)
- If hunger forces a farmer in a particular year to eat both his yam tubers and the seed-yams, the succeeding years would still be worse because he would have no yams to eat and none to plant.
(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)
- If neither animal nor vegetable you be, then mineral you are. If one finger brought oil it soiled others.
(Nigerian Proverb)
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