Ola Rotimi Quotes
1938–2000 Nigeria
Olawale Gladstone Emmanuel Rotimi, best known as Ola Rotimi (13 April 1938 – 18 August 2000) was one of Nigeria's leading playwrights and theatre directors.
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Also known as: Ola rotimi, Our husbands has gone mad again
34 quotes
By trying often, the monkey learns to jump from tree to tree without falling.
The horns cannot be too heavy for the head of the cow that must bear them.
Until the rotten tooth is pulled out, the mouth must chew with caution.
When the frog in front falls in pit, others behind take caution.
Kolanut last long in the mouths of them who value it.
He says it's not that we don't want to be alive.
To get fully cured one needs patience. The moon moves slowly but by daybreak it crosses the sky.
When a man's wife is mad, the whole town knows, but when a man is mad, only his wife knows.
Your highness, if you think to have heavy suspicion is wisdom, then your head is not well.
A man who has no respect for his wife is like a farmer who has no respect for his farm.
The hyena flirts with the hen, the hen is happy, not knowing that her death has come.
A man who cannot control his wife is like a chief who cannot control his subjects.
Now my people, when trees fall on trees, first the topmost must be removed.
A madman is like a child, he speaks the truth without knowing it.
If you rise too early the dew of life will soak you.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ola Rotimi (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.