Nigerian Proverbs - page 4

Hurrying and worrying are not the same as strength. (Nigerian Proverb)
Hyenas are caught with stinking bait. View proverb
Nigerian Proverb
If a child shoots an arrow that reaches the top of a tall palm tree, then it must be that an elderly person carved the arrow for him. View proverb
Nigerian Proverb
That which brings misfortune is not big. View proverb
Nigerian Proverb
The alcohol that is insufficient for a whole town ought not to intoxicate one man. View proverb
Nigerian Proverb
The day you are leaving is not the time to start your preparations. View proverb
Nigerian Proverb
If men were now to turn their hostility towards the cat, it would not be long before the domestic cat becomes a wild animal. View proverb
Nigerian Proverb
Sinews and big muscles do not make a farmer. View proverb
Nigerian Proverb
Sometimes the rain might force a man more than once to seek shelter under the same tree. View proverb
Nigerian Proverb
If you want to give a sick man medicine, let him first be really ill -- so that he can see how well the medicine works. View proverb
Nigerian Proverb
It is more fun doing evil than putting it right. (Nigerian Proverb)
It is not only the hare, the tortoise arrives also at the destination. View proverb
Nigerian Proverb
No one feels the pains that arise from unintended injury. View proverb
Nigerian Proverb
Once a cock begins to crow, it never again becomes dumb. View proverb
Nigerian Proverb
One can only try to get what one can from the head of an elephant, no one ever carries it home. View proverb
Nigerian Proverb
One cannot go back to the farmer from whom one borrowed seed-yams to plant to say that the beetles have eaten up the seed-yams. View proverb
Nigerian Proverb
It is one person in a street that kills a dog and the street is named a street of dog killers. View proverb
Nigerian Proverb
It is the brutally outspoken man that earns enmity. View proverb
Nigerian Proverb
It is the fear of what tomorrow may bring that makes the tortoise to carry his house along with him wherever he goes. View proverb
Nigerian Proverb
It is the woman whose child has been eaten by a witch who best knows the evils of witchcraft. View proverb
Nigerian Proverb
It is usual of a person found guilty in a trial to boast that he would press his case further. (Nigerian Proverb)
It is when there is a stampede, that a person with big buttocks knows that he carries a load. View proverb
Nigerian Proverb
Love is better than a whip. View proverb
Nigerian Proverb
The mouth that eats pepper is the one that the pepper influences. View proverb
Nigerian Proverb
When a face is sullen it remains there to be seen on its owner. View proverb
Nigerian Proverb
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