451 Famous Nigerian Proverbs

Famous Proverbs / Nigerian Proverbs

81. All lizards lie on their bellies, but nobody knows which of them suffers stomach ache.
82. Allah preserve us from "If only I'd known!"
83. Although the snake does not fly it has caught the bird whose home is in the sky.
84. An ant-hill that is destined to become a giant ant-hill will definitely become one, no matter how many times it is destroyed by elephants.
85. An oil lamp feels proud to give light even though it wears itself away.
86. An old banana leaf was once young and green.
87. An old man is there to talk.
88. An old woman is not old in a song she dances well.
89. Antagonism is not good for fowls, and it is not good for goats; worse still, it is not good for human beings.
90. Any wealth that takes only a market week to acquire is sure to contain in it things for which the gods will surely come to make claims.

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