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Nigerian Proverbs - page 5
It is not only the fox, even the snail arrives at its destination.
Nigerian Proverb
To eat from the same pot with another man, is to take an oath of perpetual friendship with him.
Nigerian Proverb
When a fire starts from the shrine, no precaution can be possible.
Nigerian Proverb
Beauty is not sold and eaten.
Nigerian Proverb
The ox will die but its harness remains.
Nigerian Proverb
A child does not die because the mother's breasts are dry.
Nigerian Proverb
A man who walks alone carries a load of palm-fronds.
Nigerian Proverb
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.
Nigerian Proverb
Everybody joins to blame or condemn a child who overthrows the pot of soup.
Nigerian Proverb
A child is what you put into him.
Nigerian Proverb
A good name is better than gold.
Nigerian Proverb
A masquerade does not perform to an outside audience until he performs well at the home base.
Nigerian Proverb
If you neglect the pot, it boils over and extinguishes the fire.
Nigerian Proverb
It is one word of advice that one needs to give to a wise man, and that word keeps multiplying in his mind.
Nigerian Proverb
Two men quarreling do not share the same seat on a canoe.
Nigerian Proverb
When a man loses his prestige, he does not regain it by going to where he is not known.
Nigerian Proverb
A child who fears beating, would never admit that he played with a missing knife.
Nigerian Proverb
Profit is profit even in Mecca.
Nigerian Proverb
The king's ambassador is without sin.
Nigerian Proverb
An old man is there to talk.
Nigerian Proverb
A man who is trampled to death by an elephant is a man who is blind and deaf.
Nigerian Proverb
A single man can not build a house.
Nigerian Proverb
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