22 Nigerian Proverbs about Thing
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A toad does not jump around in the daytime, unless something is after its life.2.
A friendly person is never a good-for-nothing.3.
A person always breaking off from work never finishes anything.4.
Fishing without a net is just bathing.5.
However hard a thing is thrown into the air, it always falls to the ground.6.
When a woman has ten children, there is nothing that happens in the night that she does not know about.7.
The gods only hear one wish at a time, and nothing more.8.
A farmer who would not work inside the rain and would not work under the sun, would have nothing to harvest at the end of the farming year.9.
It is the work of one's hands that decides what one eats for dinner - for some it is pounded yam, for others it is pounded plantain or nothing.10.
When a dying man cries, it is not because of where he is going which he knows nothing about, but because of what he wishes he would have done in the world he is leaving behind.11.
The bottom of wealth is sometimes a dirty thing to behold.12.
A family name is not cooked and eaten, one's life is the thing.13.
A bag that says it will not take more, and a traditional doctor who says he would not leave anything behind are both sure to suffer.14.
If a man is not clean and smooth, there is nothing he can really do about pride.15.
A person who picks something and decides to make it his own, ought to think how he would feel if he was the person who lost the property he picked.16.
If a child is not well-behaved, she is not sent by the mother to go alone to the market to buy things for her.17.
Beetles that roll balls out of human faeces demand to be hidden away from the rich man, because there is nothing he wouldn't buy.18.
A lizard that fell from the top of a tree wastes its time looking back to where it fell from; if there was anything good the lizard deserved, it could not have missed it while it was there on top of the tree.19.
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.20.
Time destroys all things.Proverbs about Thing
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