Ola Rotimi Quotes

Until the rotten tooth is pulled out, the mouth must chew with caution.

Barber’s arm stops in mid-air. It trembles visibly. Man throws his arms up triumphantly. Starts scooping money into his pocket.

The hyena flirts with the hen, the hen is happy, not knowing that her death has come.

Have I been sleeping? If so, I am sick in the head: for only a madman would go to sleep with his roof on fire.

When a man's beard is on fire, he does not worry about whose axe is sharp.

It is not changing into the lion that is hard, it is getting the tail of a lion

A man who has no respect for his wife is like a farmer who has no respect for his farm.

He says it's not that we don't want to be alive.

Apprentice barber is sitting on the stool. Nothing to do, he is leafing through the pages of some tattered newspapers…all of which report on Talks – all spices of Talks…On the bench at the other side of the shop the Master Barber himself lies full length, face heavenwards asleep…

It is sickness that man can cure, not death

By trying often, the monkey learns to jump from tree to tree without falling.

If you think you can drum for my downfall, and hope that, drum will sound, then your head is not good.

Large-faced, burly hunk of choice meat and big bones. He is affluently attired although with a touch of the bumpkin.

Me fight am sojar for Lugard. 1901, we take am Kontagora. West Africa Frontier Force. Me dey 1902 we take am Bauchi, go Borno. Lugard telli me...(patting himself on the back) 'Good man, good man!' 1903 - we take am Kano, take am Sokoto. Lugard make am me Corpul-one rope...

To get fully cured one needs patience. The moon moves slowly but by daybreak it crosses the sky.