A Collection of Wisdom: Proverbs

Nigerian Proverbs

The man that won’t marry a woman with other admirers won’t marry a woman at all.

Rain does not make friends with anybody—it falls on any person it meets outside.

You can’t use your hand to force the sun to set.

Black goats must be caught early, before it gets dark.

No matter how dark it is, the hand always knows the way to the mouth.

The mouth that eats pepper is the one that the pepper influences.

Being happy in one’s home is better than being a chief.

You know who you love, but you can’t know who loves you.

What is sensible today may be derangement at another time.

Until lions have their own historians, accounts of the hunt will always celebrate the hunter.

More Proverbs