Enjoy our compilations of beautiful and deep meaning idioms, proverbs and wise sayings from across the globe. These proverbs and allegories will greatly enhance your speech and wisdom
- A bad attitude is like a flat tire, you cannot go far until you change it – African
- A bad penny always turns up – English
- A bad workman always quarrels with his tools – English
- A beggar begging from another beggar will never get rich – Jamaican
- A bird at the hand is worth two in the bush – English
- A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses – Chinese
- A child can play with his mother’s breast but not his father’s testicles – African
- A child can play with its mother’s breasts, but not its father’s testicles – African (Guinea)
- A child’s coffin is the heaviest to carry – African
- A cockroach is never innocent in the midst of fowl – Nigerian
- A foolish man complains about his torn pocket, A wise man uses it to scratch his balls – African
- A heart in love with beauty never grows old – Turkish
- A hunter that comes home with a domestic goat is a thief – African
- A hunting dog that is destined to get lost will never hear the whistling sound of the hunter! – Nigerian
- A lizard jumped from the high iroko tree to the ground, looked left and left and said to himself that he would praise himself if no one else did – Nigerian
- A mad man in the street is funny only when he is not your relative – African
- A man is judged according to his worth and not according to the worth of his father – Nigerian
- A man that had never lied to a lady does not care about her feelings – African
- A man who counts his money after withdrawing from the ATM has trust issues – Nigerian
- A man who defecated under the shades of his tree will have no option than to stay under the Sun – African
- A man who hangs around a beautiful girl without saying a word ends up fetching water for guests at her wedding – Nigerian
- A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness – Igbo
- A monkey that eats grass instead of banana is a goat – Unknown
- A naked man does not put his hands in the pocket – Unknown
- A pastor praying for a madman does not pray with both eyes closed – Unknown
- A proverb is much matter decocted into few words – Thomas Fuller
- A proverb is to speech what salt is to food – Arabic Proverb
- A snake that attempts to bite the tortoise will have itself to blame – Nigerian
- A stingy man who refuses to eat good things in his lifetime, should look how awful the mouth of the dead is – Nigerian
- A stranger could be more supportive than a family member. Never think your family is all you got – Unknown
- A toad does not run in the daytime for nothing, if it is not chasing after something, then something is after his life – Nigerian
- A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own –– Unknown
- A woman who is desperately in need of a child, does not sleep with her panties on! – African
- A woman with a beautiful body is good for a night, but a woman with a beautiful mind is good for a lifetime – Unknown
- Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit – Nigerien
- Age is respected, but achievement is revered – African
- An antelope was running like mad. An elephant asked him: “Antelope, why are you running like that?” She replied, “The police are arresting all the goats in the village.” The elephant retorted: “But you are not a goat!” The antelope replied, “With our current justice system it will take me 20 years to prove that I am not a goat.” And the elephant also started running – Unknown
- An old lady feels uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb – Ghana
- Be there for others but never leave yourself behind – Unknown
- Beauty is not so much what you see as what you dream – Walloon
