Igbo proverbs

While the wooden idols are tormenting me, the termites are tormenting them.

The riverside monkey is apt to be blamed for every twig found in the river.

If you wish to eat a mushroom, you cannot consider what the mushroom fed on.

A snake that swallows his friend will have a tail sticking out of his mouth.

Whichever son is able should bury his father. The first son did not kill him.

A palm tree climber is not expected to tell everything he sees from up above.

The big game often appears when the hunter has given up the hunt for the day.

An udara fruit that falls by the roadside must want to be picked up and eaten.

Everyone cut the grass. Cut the grass. Let no one call the others 'Prisoners'.

When the leopard has a broken paw, the antellope comes to collect an old debt.

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