If a man is not clean and smooth, there is nothing he can really do about pride.
More Nigerian Proverbs:
Familiarity breeds contempt; distance breeds respect.Nigerian
We do not use our bare feet to search for hidden thorns which we have seen in day time.
Nigerian
Don't look for speed in a cheap horse; be content if it neighs.
Nigerian
An old banana leaf was once young and green.
Nigerian
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
It is by the strength of their number that the ants in the field are able to carry their prey to the nest.
Nigerian