Dog eats excreta, but goat gets rotten teeth.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo
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God swats flies for an animal that has no tail.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about god
Dancing the drum will be done where the drum is.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo
The prince is never guilty in his father's court.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo
Bump-thump-scratch. It's all on a big man's skin.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about man
The best way to eat hot soup is little by little.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo
The piglet has the same type of snout as her mother.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about mother
He who spits towards the sky is spitting on his face.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about sky, face
You may be clever but you can never lose your shadow.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about intelligence, shadow, contentment
When the music stops, a deaf person continues to dance.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about music, dance, people
If the kernels are not finished, the jaw will not rest.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about rest
A man with a missing tooth does not eat ugiri with relish.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about man
A guest mourner does not wail as though his heart is broken.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about heart
One who knows everything at times draws water with a basket.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about water
A bad habit that lasts more than a year may turn into a custom.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about habits, bad luck, bad
A person can never run so fast as to run away from his backside.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about fasting, people
A travelled child knows better than the old man who sits at home.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about home, children, man, old, olderness
Swearing in the name of one god while at the shrine of another god.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about name, god
When the mother goat breaks into the yam store her kid watches her.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about stores, mother
The same rain that drenches the slave also drenches the slave driver.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about rain
