A person can never run so fast as to run away from his backside.
More Igbo Proverbs:
While the wooden idols are tormenting me, the termites are tormenting them.Igbo
Criticism of the brave is behind his back.
Igbo
If you wish to eat a mushroom, you cannot consider what the mushroom fed on.
Igbo
If a baby crawls up to me and pinches me, I will get on my knees and pinch him back.
Igbo
You may be clever but you can never lose your shadow.
Igbo
A woman who needs to borrow a calabash cannot count on going early to the stream.
Igbo