Covetousness is the father of unfulfilled desires.
Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian
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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
Stretch your hands as far as they reach, grab all you can grab.
Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about contentment
Nobody knows the mysteries which lie at the bottom of the ocean.
Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about lie
For no man could be blessed without the acceptance of his own head.
Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about heads, man
Where you will sit when you are old shows where you stood in youth.
Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about youth, contentment, 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
When the door is closed, you must learn to slide across the crack of the sill.
Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about contentment
If we stand tall it is because we stand on the backs of those who came before us.
Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian
