Part 1: On humility, self-control, self-knowledge, self-respect, and self-restraint

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“I will get my money's worth out of these trousers”; the grown man only winds up exposing his bare buttocks to the world.

The humpback's child has presented a formidable dilemma: he cries, “Mother, mother, carry me on your back!”

Where did you discard all other names and picked for yourself the name Làm̀bòròkí?

When we were stacking the corn we did not stack some for the brown rat.

Since you claim to be a seasoned rider, how come your horse has gone lame?

Since when did a tiger-hide sac become a thing a child uses to harvest okro?

70. This proverb is used to chastise people and to order them to snap out of their bad habits.  [Back to text]