Browse Dozens of Proverbs
NIGERIGAN
- "A crowd is like a smoldering log which can spark into a flame at any time."
- "A diviner cannot accurately divine his own future."
- " 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."
- "A masquerade does not perform to an outside audience until he performs well at the home base."
- " A masquerade is not a spirit only because of its mask."
- " A strong man is remembered on the day of the fight, and a gluttony on the day pounded yam is surplus."
- " 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."
- "At a time a cockerel matures, it begins to crow to tell the world the time of day."
- " Beauty is not sold and eaten."
- "Beetles that roll balls out of human faeces demand to be hidden away from the rich man, because there is nothing he wouldn't buy."
- "Dead though the oil-palm may be, the maggot in it lives on."
- "Everybody joins to blame or condemn a child who overthrows the pot of soup."
- "He whose throat is longer than his arm must pray constantly for gods' protection."
- "How can man be remembered when the giant trees in the forest are soon forgotten."
- "However much the world degenerates, man shall never find worms in salt."
- "If gold rusts, what will iron do? "
- "It is for saying that he has no time that the monkey's body became over-grown with long hairs."
- "It is he who has no place to call at that moves fast through life."
- "It is the fortunate person that the physician undertakes to help."
- "It is the self-love of the king parrot that made him become a talkative."
- "It is usual of a person found guilty in a trial to boast that he would press his case further."
- "It is what the eyes of one man sees that is described as a boa constrictor."
- "No frog is tied by a rope to a pond."
- "Once a cock begins to crow, it never again becomes dumb."
- "The fly that has no one to advise it follows the corpse into the grave."
- "The glow-works light the nights, but more so the night that their mother prepares porridge."
- "The goat that cries the loudest is not the one that will eat the most."
- "The gods may still send a gentle breeze when they want to bless us."
- "The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks."
- "The spirit that keeps one going when one has no choice of what else to do must not be mistaken for valor."
- "They are the gods themselves that white-wash the fruits of the pumpkins."
- "When a fire starts from the shrine, no precaution can be possible."
- "When a woman prepares a dish which others find unpalatable, she says that she prepared it to suit her own taste."
- "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."
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