Yoruban Proverbs, Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
10 Yoruban Proverbs
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“A great affair covers up a small matter.”
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“Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor.”
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“Because friendship is pleasant, we partake of our friend's
entertainment; not because we have not enough to eat in our own
house.”
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“Fear a silent man. He has lips like a drum.”
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“Many words do not fill a basket.”
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“Silence is an attribute of the dead; he who is alive speaks.”
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“The young cannot teach tradition to the old.”
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“The young cock crows as he hears the old one.”
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“Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never
come back.”
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“Work is the medicine for poverty.”
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