Nigerian Proverbs (440 Proverbs)
- A diviner cannot accurately divine his own future.
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- A man can not sit down alone to plan for prosperity.
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- A person who does not bathe, must know it of himself that he is dirty.
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- An oil lamp feels proud to give light even though it wears itself away.
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- Criticism is easy but it does not create.
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- He who pursues an innocent chicken always stumbles.
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- If one goes to a land where they cut off ears, he should cut off his own and contribute them.
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- It is by the strength of their number that the ants in the field are able to carry their prey to the nest.
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- It is the habit that a child forms at home, that follows them to their marriage.
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- Money does not announce how it is earned but whereas properly earned money appreciates, improperly earned money depreciates.
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- Our examples are like seeds on a windy day, they spread far and wide.
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- The Child of an elephant will not be a dwarf.
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- The leech that does not let go even when it is filled, dies on the dry land.
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- There is no god like the throat: it takes sacrifices daily.
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- What affects the nose must also affect the eyes that must weep for it.
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- When a woman has ten children, there is nothing that happens in the night that she does not know about.
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- Whoever says "let's fight" does not know who will be victorious.
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- A family name is not cooked and eaten, one's life is the thing.
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- A man that begets a barren cannot have a grand child.
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- A person who has children does not die.
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- An old banana leaf was once young and green.
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- Dead though the oil-palm may be, the maggot in it lives on.
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- He whose throat is longer than his arm must pray constantly for gods' protection.
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- If one imitates the upright, one becomes upright; if one imitates the crooked, one becomes crooked.
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- It is for saying that he has no time that the monkey's body became over-grown with long hairs.
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- It is the same moon that wanes today that will be the full moon tomorrow.
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- Money has the capability of making people laugh; but when they laugh, the foolish ones sometimes forget to close their mouths.
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- Patient people are patient to gain longevity.
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- The cricket is never blinded by the sand of its burrowing.
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- The lion basks in the rays of the giraffes sun.
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- They are the gods themselves that white-wash the fruits of the pumpkins.
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- What is Past is Prologue.
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- When a woman prepares a dish which others find unpalatable, she says that she prepared it to suit her own taste.
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- Without History, No Life.
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- Some birds avoid the water, ducks seek it.
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- A farmer does not boast that he has had a good harvest until his stock of yams lasts till the following harvest season.
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- A man who eases himself in public, gives cause to others to despise him.
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- 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.
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- An old woman is not old in a song she dances well.
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- Does a man not know when he has pepper in his eyes? If we forget yesterday, how shall we remember tomorrow.
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- How can man be remembered when the giant trees in the forest are soon forgotten.
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- If one were to remove every smoking wood from a fire and condemn it as bad, one would be killing the fire itself.
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- It is from a small seed that the giant Iroko tree has its beginning.
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- It is the self-love of the king parrot that made him become a talkative.
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- Mother's soup is always the best in the world.
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- Preparing cocoyams for planting does not mean that they are already planted.
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- The crocodile drinks from the same river as the centipede.
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- The man that won't marry a woman with other admirers won't marry a woman at all.
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- Those who are carrying elephants home on their heads, need not use their toes to dig up crickets on the way.
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- What is sensible today may be derangement at another time.
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- When an elephant falls, meat is sure to be surplus for those who follow the hunter.
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- Without knowing a person we must not hate him.
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- 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.
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- A farmer does not conclude by the mere look of it that a corn is unripe; he tears it open for examination.
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- A man who has one finger pointing at another has three pointing towards himself.
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- A piece of iron can only become what the blacksmith says it should become.
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- Antagonism is not good for fowls, and it is not good for goats; worse still, it is not good for human beings.
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- Even an old woman may run when a goat carries her snuff-box.
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- However long the moon disappears, someday it must shine again.
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- 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.
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- It is he who has no place to call at that moves fast through life.
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- It is the toothless animal that arrives first at the base of the fruit tree, to eat his fill before others arrive.
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- No frog is tied by a rope to a pond.
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- Proverbs are the palm oil with which words are eaten.
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- The drum sounds when the hawk appears wit ha rabbit.
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- The man who is honored, has first honored himself.
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- Those who derive fun watching lunatics, out to have one as a child or relation to know the pains of it.
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- What you do in black hair you will eat in white hair.
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- 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.
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- Without knowing a way thoroughly at day time, never attempt to pass it at night.
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- A bird does not change its feathers because the weather is bad.
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- 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.
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- A man who is advised and he takes it, is still a man who acts from his own free will.
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- A pot that build attracts the cook.
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- 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.
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- Even as the archer loves the arrow that flies, so too he loves the bow that remains constant in his hands.
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- However much the world degenerates, man shall never find worms in salt.
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- If the load is too heavy for someone to carry, one would be better off to give the load to the ground to carry.
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- It is little by little that a bird builds its nest.
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- 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.
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