Stretch your hands as far as they reach, grab all you can grab.
Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian
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163 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
When the door is closed, you must learn to slide across the crack of the sill.
Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian
If we stand tall it is because we stand on the backs of those who came before us.
Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian
Truth came to market but could not be sold; however, we buy lies with ready cash.
Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about stores, commerce, truth
One takes care of one's own: when a bachelor roasts yam, he share's it with his sheep.
Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian
The pot-lid is always badly off: the pot gets all the sweet, the lid nothing but steam.
Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about nothing
We must blame the thief first before we say that where the owner put her property improper.
Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about thieves
Those who die through ignorance are many; those who die because they are intelligent are few.
Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about ignorance, death
When you stand with the blessings of your mother and God, it matters not who stands against you.
Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about mother, god
As long as there are lice in the seams of the garment there must be bloodstains on the fingernails.
Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian
If something that was going to chop off your head only knocked off your cap, you should be grateful.
Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about heads
The hand of the child cannot reach the shelf, nor the hand of the adult get through the neck of the gourd.
Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about children
Rather than an abatement of her viciousness, a witch gives birth to only female children and witchcraft multiplies.
Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about children
