When the leopard has a broken paw, the antellope comes to collect an old debt.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about old, olderness
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78 proverbs and old sayings igbo
A snake that swallows its neighbor will have a tail sticking out of its mouth.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo
A woman who needs to borrow a calabash cannot count on going early to the stream.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about woman
When a person is not as she used to be, she does not behave as she used to behave.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about people
A person who is being carried to the market does not realize that the way is long.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about stores, being, people
A man who believes that he can do everything, let him dig a grave and bury himself.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about man
If a baby crawls up to me and pinches me, I will get on my knees and pinch him back.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo
When a poor man gets a little money, his thoughts go off in ten different directions.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about money, man
Do not argue with a fool, for people will not be able to tell between the two of you.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about people
What gives the child the itch has already given him the fingernails for scratching it.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about children
A pot trader whose fortunes are all invested in her clay pots isn't much of a merchant.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo
Stream said that it is because it has nobody to direct it that... it goes in a zigzag way.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo
A person who chases a chicken is due a fall. The chicken is a master of the dodged escaped.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about fall, people
One first drives off the fox, before taking the chickens home and blaming them for straying.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about home
A wayward woman is like the weaver bird. She uses her perch on one tree to scout other trees.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about woman
A man who shoots his arrows as he makes them does not realize when he has shot a whole sheaf.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about man
At whatever age a child gets a problem, at the same age she has to shoulder the responsibility.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about age, olderness, children
A servant serves a king, he serves the king well; a servant serves two kings, he is true to one.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo
When a drunk meets a mad man, he learns the difference between being merely drunk and truly mad.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about being, man
The world is like a goat's udder. It does not yile any milk, unless you punch and squeeze at it.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about world
