Igbos come show your proverbs skills

@ne4real

You are trying your best, keep it coming  

ok let me try
oturu kpo kpo si ihe obula onuru a si mere nne ya o ga eji onu ya gbuda oshi shi nile no na ugbo. Ehi nne ya wuru, otito e to ya na onu----- it means the wood pecker said if anything should happen to its mother it will use its beak to bring down all the trees in the forest the day the mother died it had boil ini ts throat


nkita si na ma owughi maka eze ya na oma oso agba a ma ndi madu ejiri ya ye onyiye na ulo uka ka ewu--- dog says if not for my sharp teeth and also because it can run we humans would have offered it for thanksgiving in church like the goat


owughi madu ga gwa onye nne ya wuru na obe akwa---- Nobody tells a person whose mother is dead to start crying

i have another

oke si ihe na ewute ya abughi na egburu ya ma obu mbge onwu chara madu abia kwa bia gba ya elu------the rats said its not killing him thats annoying him but after he has been killed some still kicks him up in the air.

a na si oku gbara fada ga na aju ma ogbara ahu onu ya----- they are saying the revrend father caught fire and you are asking if his beards caught fire to

Erimeri na-atô utô ma osi n'akpa ônye ôzô puta
Dining and squandering is always sweet when it comes out from someone else's pocket

Nkita na anaghi anu ndumôdu na-eso ozu ala
A dog that doesn't listen to advice goes with the corpse

@people
@Cute-ass

I am sorry for my long absence, I shall make it up 

<sub>~~ enters thread, noticed that cute-ass has not been here~~

                                 ~~frowns~~</sub>     

Sad news   

I just heard that one of the great sons of ndi Igbo  highlife musician Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe, (OON) is dead at 71.
He passed on last Friday in USA, according to his family in a statement.

May his soul rest in peace.

lol . . thanks dear


May his sould really rest in peace, I really like some of his songs Guess we have that to keep his memory going


Please eehn, don't be mad. I won't dissappear again

Have a good night rest, lol

ukwu na ama ogoda adighi mma igba oto

(the waist that is always covered with cloth should not be left exposed|)

ikuku kuo afu ike okuko

(when the wind blows u see fowl yansh )

okoro etoghi eto wara ogodo, ikuku kuo, o buru ya na ogogdo

(a young man that starts tying a wrapper when he is not of age, when the wind blows, it will carry both him and the wrapper)


afu okorobia afu ogologo ihe

viee nwayi oma

Some of the proverbs your posting has already been posted 

egbe belu ugo belu, nke si na ibe ya amam be , 
lol de nke nadighi na ilu nke oburu na ima ya

Can't believe i've been gone for such a long decade, wonder where i've been lol

But i'm back to whip asses, missed y'all though


nkita nyalu akpa, nsi di n'ohia agwu
When the dog raises his bag, the sh*t in the forest/bush finishes

Ka o rie nne na ebuta izi azi
Waiting to gather enough, makes it seem you're stingy

night all!!

Onye ji mmadu n'ala ji onwe ya
He hold someone down is also down himself

Onweghi onye ma ebe mmiri siri ba na opi ugboghuru
Nobody knows where water entered the stem of pumkin leave  _{hope I got this one correct}

Onye si na ihe na ato uto, okwue ihe ona ato ka ya
He who says something is sweet, must also say what it tastes like

Ihe dara n'ala eburu ra aja
Whatever falls on the ground is already dirty