14 Nigerian Proverbs about Self
All Nigerian Proverbs | Proverbs about Self1. The hunter does not rub himself in oil and lie by the fire to sleep.
2. The lizard that jumped from the high iroko tree said he would praise himself if no one else did.
3. A bottle of oil warmed over the fire has no means of producing oil by itself.
4. If one were to remove every smoking wood from a fire and condemn it as bad, one would be killing the fire itself.
5. One must row in whichever boat one finds one's self.
6. An oil lamp feels proud to give light even though it wears itself away.
7. By being grateful, a man makes himself deserving of yet another kindness.
8. A man who has one finger pointing at another has three pointing towards himself.
9. A man who eases himself in public, gives cause to others to despise him.
10. The man who is honored, has first honored himself.
11. A person who does not bathe, must know it of himself that he is dirty.
12. It is the self-love of the king parrot that made him become a talkative.
13. Every kind of love is love, but self-love is supreme among them.
14. If you have one finger pointing at somebody, you have three pointing towards yourself.
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