Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian, page 7

163 proverbs and old sayings nigerian

Diseased genitals must keep to themselves.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian

Only what you have combated for will last.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian

After we fry the fat, we see what is left.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian

You must be willing to die in order to live.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about order, death

You cannot shave a man's head in his absence.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about heads, man

The young cock crows as he hears the old one.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about old, olderness

When hunger gets inside you, nothing else can.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about hunger, nothing

You can't stop a pig from wallowing in the mud.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian

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