“I drank to drown my sorrows, but the dammed things learnt how to swim.” — Frida Kahlo
: "One mosquito bite does not kill a bull." -- Igbo Proverb
: "One who listens to the Elders is like One who has visited the Augurers." -- Igbo Proverb
So, you're facing some Adversity in your Life? Congratulations! It means You are Alive! : "Adversity is for the Living, not for the Dead". -- Igbo Proverb
“Silence is the most terrible sound of war!”
: “When the Wine Tapper does not revisit the Palm Tree top - is the palm wine bad, has he failed, or has he moved on? — Igbo Proverb
: "A child cannot pay for it's mother's milk" -- Igbo Proverb,
: "The beautiful ones are are not yet born." -- Igbo Proverb
: "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" -- Igbo Proverb, via Chinua Achebe
: “A Leopard tamed, is no longer a leopard”. — Igbo Proverb
: "The moon and the stars are not above us, the earth is on the other side of our feet." -- Igbo Proverb
: "When a woman rules, even the streams run uphill". -- Igbo Proverb
: "The purveyor of putrid probiotics knows which flies are blind." -- Igbo Proverb
: "Sacrificial Yam, being spared, will eventually germinate and flourish." -- Igbo Proverb
: "There is no beauty, but the beauty of action". -- Igbo Proverb
: "Shortcuts, more often than not, creates double work." -- Igbo Proverb
: "The leopard does not cease to prowl because of the hunter's trap." -- Igbo Proverb
: "An heir also inherits quarrels and troubles". -- Igbo Proverb
: "He that is baleful to himself will be good to nobody." -- Igbo Proverb
: "When a sane man accompanies nine mad men, all we see are ten mad people walking by." -- Igbo Proverb
: "A Cock is a cock right from the egg." -- Igbo Proverb
: "A fowl searching for food in the compound of a thief is very close to a pot of soup." -- Igbo Proverb
: "A man who insists on Jollof Rice with Stew has trust issues." -- Igbo Adage
: "It is better to walk, than to curse the road". -- Igbo Proverb
: "Using an Elephant for a Bait, pray tell Hunter, what Hope Ye to Catch." -- Igbo Proverb
: "It is easier to pull a thorn out of someone else's skin". -- Igbo Proverb
: "Once a pickle, never a cucumber." -- Igbo Proverb, via Okey Achebe
: "When the head is too big, it cannot avoid blows". -- Igbo Proverb