Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1 Quotes

“Life is lived in time. Therefore he who wastes time, wastes life.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“Lion may be admired for courage, strength and tenacity but its life is a living death. Once dispossessed of a pride or injured, it dies very miserably. That a lion, of all its charisma can die so wretchedly emphasizes the fact that death is a great leveler.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“Looking is one thing, seeing is another. Some only see with their eyes while others see with their minds also. However, inability to see with the mind is the worst kind of blindness.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“A woman’s body and her heart are entwined; you can’t savor her body and dump her heart. It’s the heart that propels the body.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“If one lie or one theft qualify one as a liar or a thief; why does one truth or one honesty not qualify one as truthful or honest? Puzzling!”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“The name of a man is more in his thoughts than in what is thought of him. As a container shapes liquid, so are our lives shaped by our thoughts.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“Birds are sky bound; holding them down in a cage is wicked love.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“Finding your tongue to speak calmly under provocation can be tongue twisting. It’s still possible though, to supply a mild reply that complies with restraint. There is maturity in getting your tongue around to speak peacefully.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“Striking a snake with a short stake is a mistake. Instead, take a long rake and break its head, if it quakes or shakes, strike again and again till it can’t wake to make trouble.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“Wining and dining instead of crying and wailing at a funeral in sympathy with the bereaved is a mockery of condolence. If the dead are capable of anything, they will zip up the mouth of everyone in attendance except those crying and condoling.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“Ingredients taste as much in the hands of a beautiful ‘angel’ as in the hands of an ugly ‘gorilla’. The face or physique of a cook does not influence the ‘rhyme’ and ‘rhythm’ in a simmering pot.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“It is in the nature of the mature to foresee a ‘puncture’ the immature cannot see.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“The taste of a meal is not determined by the face or physique of the cook. After all, a cooking pot has no eyes to admire or abhor the cook, even it has, they have been blinded by cooking.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“Our loved ones may be nailed in a coffin but their epitaph is nailed in our hearts. Death cannot kill love.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“Loss of sight is unfortunate but loss of perception is a calamity. Refusing to see from other’s point of view is an acute form of blindness.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“The ability to analyze a situation, realize a solution and actualize a change distinguishes the mature from the miniature minded.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“Needlessly scrutinizing friends is like the nuisance of going between the bark and the tree.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“In pride some angels lost a glorious relationship and became demons. In humility some humans will gain the glorious relationship and become angels.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“Ironically, the rich who can afford extravagance are the ones who benefit the most from cheap commodities. They buy bulk and get robust discounts. They have what it takes to trap a valuable possession when it is reduced to a fling away price, due to desperation. Thus the rich keep getting richer.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“Only those who confront unusual challenge can flaunt unusual success.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“If you can’t beat them, leave them. Good morals do not improve bad association. It’s a reverse that will only drive to regret.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“The sweet of success comes after the sweat of discipline.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“Deserving ones don’t always get the acclaim. Some people are beautiful but unfortunate, struggling but failing, intelligent but poor, loving but despised. Those who deserve it don’t get it but those who get it don’t deserve it. Such is life.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“The next time you lose your temper, better use torch light and find it so that you won’t be careless with it anytime soon.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“I don’t want to be infected with somebody’s photosynthesis as my osmosis is advancing from metamorphosis to trypanosomiasis which is a crisis – so said the analysis of the diagnosis conducted by Francis.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“The physiology of the guilty alters his physiognomy making his psychology susceptible to suspicion.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“Of what benefit is size to the elephant when though, being the largest jungle animal is not king of the jungle; not even uncle of the jungle?”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“If you recover and discover that your lover refused to stopover during your hangover ordeal because of a spillover dispute, will it be over between you both?”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“Except armed with a piece of ‘steel’, one cannot steal from a man who’s still awake.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“Ignoring snoring can be boring and annoying. But the noise of snoring is serenade compared to the silence of cheating.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1