A bag that says it will not take more, and a traditional doctor who says he would not leave anything behind are both sure to suffer. (Nigerian Proverb)
A farmer does not conclude by the mere look of it that a corn is unripe; he tears it open for examination. (Nigerian Proverb)
A man who has one finger pointing at another has three pointing towards himself. (Nigerian Proverb)
A piece of iron can only become what the blacksmith says it should become. (Nigerian Proverb)
Antagonism is not good for fowls, and it is not good for goats; worse still, it is not good for human beings. (Nigerian Proverb)
Even an old woman may run when a goat carries her snuff-box. (Nigerian Proverb)
However long the moon disappears, someday it must shine again. (Nigerian Proverb)
If one would not eat pounded yam for its own sake, one can still eat it for the sake of the soup that goes with it. (Nigerian Proverb)
It is he who has no place to call at that moves fast through life. (Nigerian Proverb)
It is the toothless animal that arrives first at the base of the fruit tree, to eat his fill before others arrive. (Nigerian Proverb)
Those who derive fun watching lunatics, out to have one as a child or relation to know the pains of it. (Nigerian Proverb)
What you do in black hair you will eat in white hair. (Nigerian Proverb)
When an only kolanut is presented with love, it carries with it more value than might otherwise be associated with a whole pod of several kolanuts. (Nigerian Proverb)
Without knowing a way thoroughly at day time, never attempt to pass it at night. (Nigerian Proverb)
A bird does not change its feathers because the weather is bad. (Nigerian Proverb)
A farmer who would not work inside the rain and would not work under the sun, would have nothing to harvest at the end of the farming year. (Nigerian Proverb)
A man who is advised and he takes it, is still a man who acts from his own free will. (Nigerian Proverb)
Any wealth that takes only a market week to acquire is sure to contain in it things for which the gods will surely come to make claims. (Nigerian Proverb)
Even as the archer loves the arrow that flies, so too he loves the bow that remains constant in his hands. (Nigerian Proverb)
However much the world degenerates, man shall never find worms in salt. (Nigerian Proverb)
If the load is too heavy for someone to carry, one would be better off to give the load to the ground to carry. (Nigerian Proverb)
It is the work of one's hands that decides what one eats for dinner - for some it is pounded yam, for others it is pounded plantain or nothing. (Nigerian Proverb)
No matter how dark it is, the hand always knows the way to the mouth. (Nigerian Proverb)
Rain does not make friends with anybody -- it falls on any person it meets outside. (Nigerian Proverb)
When a dying man cries, it is not because of where he is going which he knows nothing about, but because of what he wishes he would have done in the world he is leaving behind. (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)
Without retaliation, evils would one day become extinct from the world. (Nigerian Proverb)
A bird that flies from the ground onto an anthill, does not know that it is still on the ground. (Nigerian Proverb)
At a time a cockerel matures, it begins to crow to tell the world the time of day. (Nigerian Proverb)
Every kind of love is love, but self-love is supreme among them. (Nigerian Proverb)
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 the owner of two adjacent farms cannot be friends, then they must wait till their next reincarnation to be able to make friends. (Nigerian Proverb)
It is not only the fox, even the snail arrives at its destination. (Nigerian Proverb)
It is what the eyes of one man sees that is described as a boa constrictor. (Nigerian Proverb)
Every river knows where its water would not be soaked up into the earth, and that is where it flows past. (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 you don't wish to have rags for clothes, don't play with a dog. (Nigerian Proverb)