Yoruba proverbs

One takes care of one's own: when a bachelor roasts yam, he share's it with his sheep.

The pot-lid is always badly off: the pot gets all the sweet, the lid nothing but steam.

We must blame the thief first before we say that where the owner put her property improper.

Those who die through ignorance are many; those who die because they are intelligent are few.

When you stand with the blessings of your mother and God, it matters not who stands against you.

As long as there are lice in the seams of the garment there must be bloodstains on the fingernails.

If something that was going to chop off your head only knocked off your cap, you should be grateful.

The hand of the child cannot reach the shelf, nor the hand of the adult get through the neck of the gourd.

Rather than an abatement of her viciousness, a witch gives birth to only female children and witchcraft multiplies.

When your neighbor's horse falls into a pit, you should not rejoice at it, for your own child may fall into it too.

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