A lizard that fell from the top of a tree wastes its time looking back to where it fell from; if there was anything good the lizard deserved, it could not have missed it while it was there on top of the tree. (Nigerian Proverb)
A performing masquerade who tries too hard to outclass his colleagues may expose his anus. (Nigerian Proverb)
All lizards lie on their bellies, but nobody knows which of them suffers stomach ache. (Nigerian Proverb)
Our elders quote the cock as saying that "it would not be good if one becomes the only person in the world, and that is why they crow every morning to show their number". (Nigerian Proverb)
The bird that remembers its flockmates, never missed the way. (Nigerian Proverb)
The head could not have got to where it is now if it did not give. (Nigerian Proverb)
The weak warrior wearing sandals overcomes the brave with a thorn in his foot. (Nigerian Proverb)
We do not use our bare feet to search for hidden thorns which we have seen in day time. (Nigerian Proverb)
When a soup is unpalatable, and the paste of the pounded yam that goes with it is not smooth, that is the time to know a man who loves to eat pounded yam. (Nigerian Proverb)
When you are eating with the devil, you must use a long spoon. (Nigerian Proverb)
A crowd is like a smoldering log which can spark into a flame at any time. (Nigerian Proverb)
A person on whose head lice are being removed, must be grateful. (Nigerian Proverb)
An ant-hill that is destined to become a giant ant-hill will definitely become one, no matter how many times it is destroyed by elephants. (Nigerian Proverb)
Our elders say that at sunset, it is one's cloth that one goes to remove from the village square. (Nigerian Proverb)
The bottom of wealth is sometimes a dirty thing to behold. (Nigerian Proverb)
The heap of yams you will reap depends upon the number of mounds you have plowed. (Nigerian Proverb)
There is no elephant that complains about the weight of its trunk. No elephant is burdened by the weight of its tusks. (Nigerian Proverb)
We live by hope, but a reed never becomes an Iroko tree by dreaming. (Nigerian Proverb)
When a woman cannot have good palm-nuts to give her rich oil, she still has to maintain decency in order to remain one of those that sell good quality oil. (Nigerian Proverb)
Who says the oasis in the desert is happy because of its hidden spring of water? (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)