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Nigerian Proverbs - page 4
Hyenas are caught with stinking bait.
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.
Nigerian Proverb
That which brings misfortune is not big.
Nigerian Proverb
The alcohol that is insufficient for a whole town ought not to intoxicate one man.
Nigerian Proverb
The day you are leaving is not the time to start your preparations.
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.
Nigerian Proverb
Sinews and big muscles do not make a farmer.
Nigerian Proverb
Sometimes the rain might force a man more than once to seek shelter under the same tree.
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.
Nigerian Proverb
It is not only the hare, the tortoise arrives also at the destination.
Nigerian Proverb
No one feels the pains that arise from unintended injury.
Nigerian Proverb
Once a cock begins to crow, it never again becomes dumb.
Nigerian Proverb
One can only try to get what one can from the head of an elephant, no one ever carries it home.
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.
Nigerian Proverb
It is one person in a street that kills a dog and the street is named a street of dog killers.
Nigerian Proverb
It is the brutally outspoken man that earns enmity.
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.
Nigerian Proverb
It is the woman whose child has been eaten by a witch who best knows the evils of witchcraft.
Nigerian Proverb
It is when there is a stampede, that a person with big buttocks knows that he carries a load.
Nigerian Proverb
Love is better than a whip.
Nigerian Proverb
The mouth that eats pepper is the one that the pepper influences.
Nigerian Proverb
When a face is sullen it remains there to be seen on its owner.
Nigerian Proverb
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