I have come across several funny proverbs, adages and Sayings but Nigerian versions are the best.

When I use some of it during dialogues, people look at me like......

Permit me to share some here as you may add yours as well to appreciate ourselves as Nigerians.

1) A boy who want to scatter market will first kick his mother's stock

2)He who goes to sleep with an itching anus wakes up with smelly fingers

2) A man who wrestles with a pig should not complain of his dirty cloth

3) Ashort man is not a boy

4) Nobody tells a blind man that the market is on fire

5) No matter how hot your anger is, it cannot cook yams

6) The frown on the face of the goat will not stop it from being taken to the market

7) When a man wakes up in the morning and finds himself being pursued by chicken should better run for his life cos who knows if the chicken grows teeth overnight.

If you swallow Alomo bitters without squezing your face, then you are capable of commiting murder

9) A man who throws up a public party because his wife buys and enamel washbasing is capable of anything

10)A person who sells eggs should not start a fight in the market.

11) Na when soldier slap you, you go sabi say police na your friend!

12) When a ripe fruit sees an honest man, it drops.

13) The one-eyed man does not thank God until he sees a blind man.

14) Fishing without a net is just bathing.

15) If you can’t dance well, you’d better not get up.

16) He who marries a beauty marries trouble.

17) A snake will always give birth to something long.

18) Fine words do not produce food.

19) The disobedient fowl obeys in a pot of soup.

20) It is the fear of what tomorrow may bring that makes the tortoise to carry his house along with him wherever he goes.

Onye taa Azu n'ataghi isi ya, ihe otara enweghi isi.


IGBO AMAKA

Nobody tells a blind man that there is no salt in the soup.

There is wisdom in some of the sayings

The water to quench a fire doesn't have to be clean.




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1. Eme'ma onye akidi, ya gworta odu(ozu)








2. If you are in a hole, and you don't raise your hand, people will think you are playing there.
i.e. if you are in a bad situation and you don't ask for help , people will think you are enjoying your situation.

K

Only no 6 is funny to me, the rest are just normal.

..do not always assume that a pot bellied man has eaten..

21. no matter the stunt buhari pulls, he's going back to daura in 2019

No matter how long d goatee of a he-goat is, d goat cannot shave in d barbing salon of a Lion.

Chei, you did not add ' Fly wey no dey hear word dey follow dead body enter grave '

no matter how a woman shakes her buttocks, it can never com to the front..

Lol


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Meaning: i'm deceptive.

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Did you refer to these as proverbs? . There're wise proverbs and there're foolish proverbs. Nothing proverbial about these for god's sake. These are just imminent, obvious statements NOT proverbs .

One OAP for Radio One 103.5 dey always let me laff with him proverbs...Aarab Akalogwu

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..do not always assume that a pot bellied man has eaten..

correct!



believing that Nigerian police is your friend shows that your brain cells need fertiliser for rapid development...

This shouldn't have been on front page, its old, local, and copied.

Woman d red puz.zi she no dy red eye.

Don4eva:
Onye taa Azu n'ataghi isi ya, ihe otara enweghi isi.


IGBO AMAKA

chai, Nwanne, iji okwu

It is only d foolish man DAT would go to d forest to check d size of a lion's penis.

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AlexDeedat:
I have come across several funny proverbs, adages and Sayings but Nigerian versions are the best.

When I use some of it during dialogues, people look at me like......

Permit me to share some here as you may add yours as well to appreciate ourselves as Nigerians.

1) A boy who want to scatter market will first kick his mother's stock

2)He who goes to sleep with an itching anus wakes up with smelly fingers

2) A man who wrestles with a pig should not complain of his dirty cloth

3) Ashort man is not a boy

4) Nobody tells a blind man that the market is on fire

5) No matter how hot your anger is, it cannot cook yams

6) The frown on the face of the goat will not stop it from being taken to the market

7) When a man wakes up in the morning and finds himself being pursued by chicken should better run for his life cos who knows if the chicken grows teeth overnight.

If you swallow Alomo bitters without squezing your face, then you are capable of commiting murder

9) A man who throws up a public party because his wife buys and enamel washbasing is capable of anything

10)A person who sells eggs should not start a fight in the market.

11) Na when soldier slap you, you go sabi say police na your friend!

12) When a ripe fruit sees an honest man, it drops.

13) The one-eyed man does not thank God until he sees a blind man.

14) Fishing without a net is just bathing.

15) If you can’t dance well, you’d better not get up.

16) He who marries a beauty marries trouble.

17) A snake will always give birth to something long.

18) Fine words do not produce food.

19) The disobedient fowl obeys in a pot of soup.

20) It is the fear of what tomorrow may bring that makes the tortoise to carry his house along with him wherever he goes.

the egoat that's chasing the wife of a lion love enjoyment more than is life.

The anger of a small man, lyes in his belle

The frown on the face of Buhari will not stop Nigerians from voting him out!

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