Proverb
Proverb
A proverb is a simple and concrete statement popularly known and repeated, that expresses a truth based on common sense or experience...
fault understand
Don't find fault with what you don't understand
drown man taught
Don't drown the man who taught you to swim.
cut face nose spite
Don't cut off your nose to spite your face
loves naked truth
Craftiness must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked
departure pleasure visits
Visits always give pleasure - if not the arrival, the departure
bull cloth react red
To react like a bull on a red cloth
happy home nigeria
To be happy in one's home is better than to be a chief. Yoruba, Nigeria
dance dance-and-dancing hear hearts speak watch
To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak
forget
To want to forget something is to think of it
cup slip
There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.
corrupted last poet tongue
The tongue of a poet is always the last to be corrupted
feared sword tongue
The tongue is more to be feared than the sword
feet high inches man six three tongue
The tongue is but three inches long, yet it can kill a man six feet high
bones breaks tongue
The tongue has no bones, yet it breaks bones