A person can never run so fast as to run away from his backside.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about fasting, people
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo, page 2
78 proverbs and old sayings igbo
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
The lizard would like to stand erect, but his tail will not permit him.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo
An udara fruit that falls on the side of the road is asking to be eaten.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo
If you decide to eat a toad, you should at least select one that is big.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo
A man who rushes into battle does not realize that battle entails death.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about death, man
No one gets a mouthful of food by picking between another person's teeth.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about food, people
A calm spirit will enable a man to survive even a six-month jail sentence.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about spirit, man
While the wooden idols are tormenting me, the termites are tormenting them.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo
The riverside monkey is apt to be blamed for every twig found in the river.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo
If you wish to eat a mushroom, you cannot consider what the mushroom fed on.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about wish
A snake that swallows his friend will have a tail sticking out of his mouth.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo
Whichever son is able should bury his father. The first son did not kill him.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo
A palm tree climber is not expected to tell everything he sees from up above.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo
The big game often appears when the hunter has given up the hunt for the day.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about hunters, games, day
An udara fruit that falls by the roadside must want to be picked up and eaten.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo
Everyone cut the grass. Cut the grass. Let no one call the others 'Prisoners'.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about prison
