Nigerian Proverbs and Sayings
144 Nigerian sayings collected from Nigeria — 63 proverbs, 77 quotes, 4 short stories. Including Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa proverbs.
- Rwanda, which is one of the younger independent states in Africa, must be regarded as a model of how great human trauma can be transformed to commence true reconstruction of people. Human trauma can lead to stunted growth and mass withdrawal.Quote · Nigeria
- My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.Quote · Nigeria
- The stars shine brightest when the moon is gone.Proverb · Nigeria
- Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world.Quote · Nigeria
- Strategy is better than strength.Proverb · Nigeria · Niger
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.Quote · Nigeria
- Many writers can't make a living. So to be able to teach how to write is valuable to them. But I don't really know about its value to the student. I don't mean it's useless. But I wouldn't have wanted anyone to teach me how to write.Quote · Nigeria
- And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.Quote · Nigeria
- The frog does not jump in the daytime without reason.Proverb · Nigeria
- The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.Quote · Nigeria
- The hunter does not rub himself in oil and lie by the fire to sleep.Proverb · Nigeria
- The hunter in pursuit of an elephant does not stop to throw stones at birds.Proverb · Nigeria
- The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this.Quote · Nigeria
- The lion's power lies in our fear of him.Proverb · Nigeria
- The man that won't marry a woman with other admirers won't marry a woman at all.Proverb · Nigeria
- Some people ask: “Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?” Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general—but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women.Quote · Nigeria
- The spider that knows what it will gain sits waiting patiently in its web.Proverb · Nigeria
- I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew that there was something inside me that wanted me to tell who I was, and that would have come out even if I didn't want it.Quote · Nigeria
- In the moment of crisis, the wise build bridges and the foolish build dams.Proverb · Nigeria
- But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.Quote · Nigeria
- They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.Quote · Nigeria
- In today's world, paradoxically, it is the boldest action that is often the safest. Remaining where you are in a world that is changing so rapidly is in fact the most dangerous of all places to be in.Quote · Nigeria
- When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.Quote · Nigeria
- The tree that cannot shed its old leaves in the dry season, cannot survive the period of drought.Proverb · Nigeria