Yoruba Proverbs - page 2

When hunger gets inside you, nothing else can. (Yoruba Proverb)
The person who has been a slave from birth does not value rebellion. View proverb
Yoruba Proverb
One who waits for chance may wait a year. View proverb
Yoruba Proverb
Gossipers always suspect that others are talking about them. View proverb
Yoruba Proverb
Covetousness is the father of unfulfilled desires. View proverb
Yoruba Proverb
Diseased genitals must keep to themselves. View proverb
Yoruba Proverb
Patching makes a garment last long.. View proverb
Yoruba Proverb
The young rooster crows as he hears the old one. View proverb
Yoruba Proverb
One takes care of one's own: when a bachelor roasts yam, he share's it with his sheep. View proverb
Yoruba Proverb
The young cannot teach tradition to the old. View proverb
Yoruba Proverb
Nobody knows the mysteries which lie at the bottom of the ocean.. (Yoruba Proverb)
Rather than an abatement of her viciousness, a witch gives birth to only female children and witchcraft multiplies . View proverb
Yoruba Proverb
You cannot shave a man's head in his absence. View proverb
Yoruba Proverb
Silence is an attribute of the dead; he who is alive speaks. View proverb
Yoruba Proverb
A man with a cough cannot conceal himself. View proverb
Yoruba Proverb
A proverb is the horse that can carry one swiftly to the discovery of ideas. View proverb
Yoruba Proverb
After we fry the fat, we see what is left. View proverb
Yoruba Proverb
The pot-lid is always badly off: the pot gets all the sweet, the lid nothing but steam. View proverb
Yoruba Proverb
Those who die through ignorance are many; those who die because they are intelligent are few. View proverb
Yoruba Proverb
What you give you get, ten times over. View proverb
Yoruba Proverb
Where you will sit when you are old shows where you stood in youth. (Yoruba Proverb)
A stammerer would eventually say father. View proverb
Yoruba Proverb
As there is guilt in innocence, there is innocence in guilt. View proverb
Yoruba Proverb
The hand of the child cannot reach the shelf, nor the hand of the adult get through the neck of the gourd. View proverb
Yoruba Proverb
When your neighbor's horse falls into a pit, you should not rejoice at it, for your own child may fall into it too. View proverb
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