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A change of name or place may sometimes save a person.

Proverbs and old sayings about change, name, people

A person can understand things deeply through proverbs.

Proverbs and old sayings about people, things

It's not the sin that maddens a person but the desire to do it.

Proverbs and old sayings about sin, people

A person worries about the past, is upset about the present, and fears the future.

Proverbs and old sayings about present, future, past, people

The worst kind of person is one whose power of speech is greater than his power of thought.

Proverbs and old sayings about power, thinking, people

A person slow to anger has great understanding; one with a quick temper exalts foolishness.

Proverbs and old sayings about anger, people

A person is always responsible: if his act was accidental or intentional, whether he was awake or asleep.

Proverbs and old sayings about people

If you do a person a favor, you'll be his superior; if he does one for you, his inferior; and if neither, you'll be his friend.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment, people

A weak person goes where he is smiled at.

Proverbs and old sayings about people

The person who is too humble becomes a scoundrel.

Proverbs and old sayings about people

Never help a person who doesn't help anybody else.

Proverbs and old sayings about help, people

Never interfere in a person's decisions about what he will do with his possessions.

Proverbs and old sayings about people

When the music stops, a deaf person continues to dance.

Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about music, dance, people

A person can never run so fast as to run away from his backside.

Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about fasting, people

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 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

A person who underneath the tall palm tree is best positioned to tell on which side the ripe head is.

Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about heads, people

A person who uses the world as his carrying pad will find himself carrying his load on his bare head.

Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about world, heads, people

A person who arrives at a feast when the cooked meat is being pulled out of the pot does not know what was endured by others to catch and cook it.

Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about feast, kitchen, being, trap, people