41 Quotes by Yoruba Proverb

No one can know better than the person himself or herself when it hurts most and what relief is needed.

[It is] an insatiable farmer who plants cotton on a farm by the stream.

People and things can change for the better.

Only those whose livelihood depends on Jegede call him a silk-cotton tree.

The silk-cotton tree is the father; the person one finds at the hut is the lord.

Cotton is what one should plant, not brass; cotton is what one should plant, not beads; as for brass and beads, neither goes with one to the grave; on the day one dies, only cloth accompanies one.

One dog does not string decorative beads all around one's waist.

A person who is like the divining string: unless you throw him down, he will not talk sense.

You reveler do things in moderation; if the string of life is cut, there is no retrying it.