Proverbs and old sayings, page 2169

43574 proverbs and old sayings

If you don't sell your head, no one will buy it.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about commerce, heads

No one can uproot the tree which God has planted.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about god

Covetousness is the father of unfulfilled desires.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian

When the rain falls in the valley, the hill gets angry.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about rain

Ashes always fly back in the face of him who throws them.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about face

He who throws a stone in the market will hit his relative.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about stores

Gossips always suspect that others are talking about them.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about talking

As there is guilt in innocence, there is innocence in guilt.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about innocence, guilt

He who eats well speaks well or it is a question of insanity.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about question

The butterfly that brushes against thorns will tear its wings.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian

When wood breaks it can be repaired, but ivory breaks forever.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian

'I nearly killed the bird. ' no one can eat 'nearly' in a stew.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian

Stretch your hands as far as they reach, grab all you can grab.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian

Nobody knows the mysteries which lie at the bottom of the ocean.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about lie

Where you will sit when you are old shows where you stood in youth.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about youth, old, olderness

The person who has been a slave from birth does not value rebellion.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about value, people

When the white man is about to leave a garden for good, he wrecks it.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about garden, good, good luck, man

It is a thief that can trace the footsteps of another thief on a rock.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about thieves, rocks

The man who has bread to eat does not appreciate the severity of a famine.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about man

A proverb is the horse that can carry one swiftly to the discovery of ideas.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian