Nigerian Proverbs - page 12

The bird flies high, but always returns to earth. (Nigerian Proverb)
The blind say that eyes have no sense of smell. View proverb
Nigerian Proverb
The body of joy is not so big. View proverb
Nigerian Proverb
The crocodile does not die under the water so that we can call the monkey to celebrate its funeral. View proverb
Nigerian Proverb
The crocodile drinks from the same river as the centipede. View proverb
Nigerian Proverb
The death that will kill a man begins as an appetite. View proverb
Nigerian Proverb
If one finger brought oil it soiled others. View proverb
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. View proverb
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. View proverb
Nigerian Proverb
If the bull would throw you, lie down. View proverb
Nigerian Proverb
If the load is too heavy for someone to carry, one would be better off to give the load to the ground to carry. (Nigerian Proverb)
If the owner of the goat is not afraid to travel by night, the owner of a hyena certainly will not be. View proverb
Nigerian Proverb
If you can't dance well, you'd better not get up. View proverb
Nigerian Proverb
If you fail to take away a strong man's sword when he is on the ground, will you do it when he gets up? View proverb
Nigerian Proverb
Only a mother would carry the child that bites. View proverb
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". View proverb
Nigerian Proverb
Our elders say that at sunset, it is one's cloth that one goes to remove from the village square. View proverb
Nigerian Proverb
Our examples are like seeds on a windy day, they spread far and wide. View proverb
Nigerian Proverb
Overabundance is not far from want. View proverb
Nigerian Proverb
Preparing cocoyams for planting does not mean that they are already planted. View proverb
Nigerian Proverb
Some birds avoid the water, ducks look for it. (Nigerian Proverb)
Someone else's legs are no good to you when you're travelling. View proverb
Nigerian Proverb
If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you don't wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. View proverb
Nigerian Proverb
It is a pot of water that is already half full that the world would like to help in filling to the brim. View proverb
Nigerian Proverb
It is from a small seed that the giant Iroko tree has its beginning. View proverb
Nigerian Proverb
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