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16 Proverbs Only Yoruba People Will Understand by nicefaze: 11:15am On Oct 14, 2016 |
Like a popular Igbo proverb says: ‘Proverbs are the palm oil with which we eat words.’ Proverbs are quite beautiful and especially among the tribes of Nigeria they are used frequently in daily speech. Here are some of the deepest Yoruba proverbs you will ever see: |
Re: 16 Proverbs Only Yoruba People Will Understand by nicefaze: 11:16am On Oct 14, 2016 |
1. A stammerer will eventually say father.
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Re: 16 Proverbs Only Yoruba People Will Understand by nicefaze: 11:18am On Oct 14, 2016 |
2. As there is guilt in innocence, there is innocence in guilt.
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Re: 16 Proverbs Only Yoruba People Will Understand by nicefaze: 11:20am On Oct 14, 2016 |
3. After we fry the fat, we see what is left.
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Re: 16 Proverbs Only Yoruba People Will Understand by ProfessorPeter(m): 11:21am On Oct 14, 2016 |
Continue |
Re: 16 Proverbs Only Yoruba People Will Understand by nicefaze: 11:22am On Oct 14, 2016 |
Re: 16 Proverbs Only Yoruba People Will Understand by nicefaze: 11:23am On Oct 14, 2016 |
nicefaze:Thank you for this one Yoruba people. Thank you! |
Re: 16 Proverbs Only Yoruba People Will Understand by nicefaze: 11:25am On Oct 14, 2016 |
ProfessorPeter:I see what you mean, believe me i do. |
Re: 16 Proverbs Only Yoruba People Will Understand by nicefaze: 11:26am On Oct 14, 2016 |
4. A man with a cough cannot conceal himself.
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Re: 16 Proverbs Only Yoruba People Will Understand by nicefaze: 11:29am On Oct 14, 2016 |
5. Fear a silent man. He has lips like a drum.
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Re: 16 Proverbs Only Yoruba People Will Understand by nicefaze: 11:34am On Oct 14, 2016 |
6. If something that was going to chop off your head only knocked off your cap, you should be grateful.
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Re: 16 Proverbs Only Yoruba People Will Understand by nicefaze: 11:37am On Oct 14, 2016 |
7. If you don’t sell your head, no one will buy it.
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Re: 16 Proverbs Only Yoruba People Will Understand by nicefaze: 11:38am On Oct 14, 2016 |
8. One takes care of one’s own: when a bachelor roasts yam, he shares it with his sheep.
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Re: 16 Proverbs Only Yoruba People Will Understand by nicefaze: 11:39am On Oct 14, 2016 |
9. Silence is an attribute of the dead; he who is alive speaks. 1 Like
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Re: 16 Proverbs Only Yoruba People Will Understand by nicefaze: 11:42am On Oct 14, 2016 |
10. The man who has bread to eat does not appreciate the severity of a famine.
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Re: 16 Proverbs Only Yoruba People Will Understand by nicefaze: 11:44am On Oct 14, 2016 |
11. We must blame the thief first before we say that where the owner put her property was improper.
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Re: 16 Proverbs Only Yoruba People Will Understand by nicefaze: 11:46am On Oct 14, 2016 |
12. When hunger gets inside you, nothing else can.
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Re: 16 Proverbs Only Yoruba People Will Understand by nicefaze: 11:47am On Oct 14, 2016 |
13. When the door is closed, you must learn to slide across the crack of the sill.
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Re: 16 Proverbs Only Yoruba People Will Understand by nicefaze: 11:49am On Oct 14, 2016 |
14. Where you will sit when you are old shows where you stood in youth.
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Re: 16 Proverbs Only Yoruba People Will Understand by nicefaze: 11:51am On Oct 14, 2016 |
15. You cannot shave a man’s head in his absence
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Re: 16 Proverbs Only Yoruba People Will Understand by nicefaze: 11:52am On Oct 14, 2016 |
16. You do not beat a child on the day he breaks a pot.
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Re: 16 Proverbs Only Yoruba People Will Understand by nicefaze: 11:54am On Oct 14, 2016 |
nicefaze:Thank God! |
Re: 16 Proverbs Only Yoruba People Will Understand by nicefaze: 11:55am On Oct 14, 2016 |
nicefaze:That is so deep. |
Re: 16 Proverbs Only Yoruba People Will Understand by nicefaze: 11:59am On Oct 14, 2016 |
nicefaze:This one is very important. |
Re: 16 Proverbs Only Yoruba People Will Understand by nicefaze: 12:01pm On Oct 14, 2016 |
nicefaze:I think some people might be dead inside. |
Re: 16 Proverbs Only Yoruba People Will Understand by nicefaze: 12:09pm On Oct 14, 2016 |
nicefaze:I got 99 problems and food ain’t one. |
Re: 16 Proverbs Only Yoruba People Will Understand by nicefaze: 12:10pm On Oct 14, 2016 |
nicefaze:You people need to stop blaming victims. |
Re: 16 Proverbs Only Yoruba People Will Understand by nicefaze: 12:10pm On Oct 14, 2016 |
nicefaze:This proverb makes me hungry. |
Re: 16 Proverbs Only Yoruba People Will Understand by nicefaze: 12:11pm On Oct 14, 2016 |
nicefaze:This one is somehow. |
Re: 16 Proverbs Only Yoruba People Will Understand by nicefaze: 12:12pm On Oct 14, 2016 |
nicefaze:He has to be there! |
Re: 16 Proverbs Only Yoruba People Will Understand by nicefaze: 12:13pm On Oct 14, 2016 |
nicefaze:In our words start on time! |
Re: 16 Proverbs Only Yoruba People Will Understand by orimsamsam(m): 3:47pm On Oct 14, 2016 |
Yoruba. We are simply the best |
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