Sunday, June 13, 2021
Nigerian Proverbs (440 Proverbs)
- Some birds avoid the water, ducks seek it.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- A farmer does not boast that he has had a good harvest until his stock of yams lasts till the following harvest season.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- A man who eases himself in public, gives cause to others to despise him.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- A person who picks something and decides to make it his own, ought to think how he would feel if he was the person who lost the property he picked.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- An old woman is not old in a song she dances well.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- Does a man not know when he has pepper in his eyes? If we forget yesterday, how shall we remember tomorrow.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- How can man be remembered when the giant trees in the forest are soon forgotten.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- If one were to remove every smoking wood from a fire and condemn it as bad, one would be killing the fire itself.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- It is from a small seed that the giant Iroko tree has its beginning.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- It is the self-love of the king parrot that made him become a talkative.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- Mother's soup is always the best in the world.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- Preparing cocoyams for planting does not mean that they are already planted.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- The crocodile drinks from the same river as the centipede.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- The man that won't marry a woman with other admirers won't marry a woman at all.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- Those who are carrying elephants home on their heads, need not use their toes to dig up crickets on the way.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- What is sensible today may be derangement at another time.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- When an elephant falls, meat is sure to be surplus for those who follow the hunter.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- Without knowing a person we must not hate him.
(Nigerian Proverb)
- 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)
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