Yoruban Proverbs (51 Proverbs)
- A proverb is the horse that can carry one swiftly to the discovery of ideas.
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- Rather than an abatement of her viciousness, a witch gives birth to only female children and witchcraft multiplies.
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- A stammerer would eventually say father.
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- Stretch your hands as far as they reach, grab all you can grab.
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- After we fry the fat, we see what is left.
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- The bell rings loudest in your own home.
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- As there is guilt in innocence, there is innocence in guilt.
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- The butterfly that brushes against thorns will tear its wings.
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- For no man could be blessed without the acceptance of his own head.
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- The hand of the child cannot reach the shelf, nor the hand of the adult get through the neck of the gourd.
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- He who eats well speaks well or it is a question of insanity.
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- The man who has bread to eat does not appreciate the severity of a famine.
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- He who throws a stone in the market will hit his relative.
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- The pot-lid is always badly off: the pot gets all the sweet, the lid nothing but steam.
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- 'i nearly killed the bird.' no one can eat 'nearly' in a stew.
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- Those who die through ignorance are many; those who die because they are intelligent are few.
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- If we stand tall it is because we stand on the backs of those who came before us.
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- We must blame the thief first before we say that where the owner put her property improper.
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- If you don't sell your head, no one will buy it.
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- When the door is closed, you must learn to slide across the crack of the sill.
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- It is a thief that can trace the footsteps of another thief on a rock.
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- When the white man is about to leave a garden for good, he wrecks it.
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- No one can uproot the tree which God has planted.
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- When you stand with the blessings of your mother and God, it matters not who stands against you.
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- Nobody knows the mysteries which lie at the bottom of the ocean.
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- When your neighbor's horse falls into a pit, you should not rejoice at it, for your own child may fall into it too.
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- One takes care of one's own: when a bachelor roasts yam, he share's it with his sheep.
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- You must be willing to die in order to live.
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- A man with a cough cannot conceal himself.
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- Only what you have combated for will last.
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- A man's first wife never complains of neglect from the penis, the first morsel never complains of insufficient sauce.
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- Patching makes a garment last long.
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- Medicine left in the bottle can't help.
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- As long as there are lice in the seams of the garment there must be bloodstains on the fingernails.
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- Work is the medicine for poverty.
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- You can't stop a pig from wallowing in the mud.
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- You cannot shave a man's head in his absence.
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- When wood breaks it can be repaired, but ivory breaks forever.
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- When the rain falls in the valley, the hill gets angry.
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- When hunger gets inside you, nothing else can.
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- Truth came to market but could not be sold; however, we buy lies with ready cash.
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- The young cock crows as he hears the old one.
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- The young can't teach traditions to the old.
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- The person who has been a slave from birth does not value rebellion.
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- One who waits for chance may wait a year.
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- If something that was going to chop off your head only knocked off your cap, you should be grateful.
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- Gossips always suspect that others are talking about them.
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- Covetousness is the father of unfulfilled desires.
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- Because friendship is pleasant, we partake of our friend's entertainment; not because we have not enough to eat in our own house.
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- Diseased genitals must keep to themselves.
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- Ashes always fly back in the face of him who throws them.
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