Thursday, June 30, 2022
Nigerian Proverbs (440 Proverbs)
- 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)
- No frog is tied by a rope to a pond.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- Proverbs are the palm oil with which words are eaten.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- The drum sounds when the hawk appears wit ha rabbit.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- The man who is honored, has first honored himself.
(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)
- A pot that build attracts the cook.
(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 little by little that a bird builds its nest.
(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)
- The elders of a community are the voice of God.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- The man who remembers others, remembers also his creator.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- Thoughts and dreams are the foundation of our being.
(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)
- A fight between grasshoppers is a joy to the crow.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- A man who is trampled to death by an elephant is a man who is blind and deaf.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- A single man can not build a house.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- Anyone who urinates in a stream should be warned because any of his relatives may drink from the water.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- Even when fire has done its very worst, one still has to resort to it.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- If a child is not well-behaved, she is not sent by the mother to go alone to the market to buy things for her.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- If the owner of a calabash calls it a worthless calabash, others will join him to use it to pack rubbish.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- It is not enough to run, one must arrive and know when one has arrived.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- It is usual of a person found guilty in a trial to boast that he would press his case further.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- No one feels the pains that arise from unintended injury.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- Rat no dey born rabbit.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- The elephant and the tiger do not go hunting on the same pasture.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- The mouth that eats pepper is the one that the pepper influences.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- To do one's duty is to eat the prized fruit of honor.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- When a face is sullen it remains there to be seen on its owner.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- When man pikin dey piss, him dey hold something for hand. Woman wey try-am, go piss for her hand.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- You can't use your hand to force the sun to set.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- A bottle of oil warmed over the fire has no means of producing oil by itself.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- A fowl does not forget where it lays it eggs.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- A man who lives alone is either always overworked, or always overfed.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- A snake which escapes fills a basket.
(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)
- Old age does not come in just one day.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- Rather than tell a lie to help a friend, it is better to assist him in paying the fine for his offense.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- The eye of a crow boiled at the new moon brings good luck for the New Year.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- To eat from the same pot with another man, is to take an oath of perpetual friendship with him.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- When a fire starts from the shrine, no precaution can be possible.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- When mother cow is cropping grass, her young one watches her mouth.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- You do not look for a black sheep at night.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- A bush fowls' playground is never appreciably spacious.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- A glorious past is the work of a glorious man.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- A man who lives on the bank of a river does not use spittle to wash his hands.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- A spacious ground is the right place to demonstrate one's skill in wrestling.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- Beauty is not sold and eaten.
(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)
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