Ola Rotimi Quotes

When a man's wife is mad, the whole town knows, but when a man is mad, only his wife knows.

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…

If you think like a tortoise you can plot against me without my first cutting you down with my own tortoise tricks, then, fellow, madness is in your liver.

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

The horns cannot be too heavy for the head of the cow that must bear them.

Your highness, if you think to have heavy suspicion is wisdom, then your head is not well.

A madman is like a child, he speaks the truth without knowing it.

Everything really depends on our vote…any vote cast for a politician tomorrow on the basis of sheer fatherhood by birth; or of brotherhood by clan; or sisterhood by religion, is your doom and my doom.

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

When the chameleon brings forth a child, is not that child expected to dance? As we have made you King, act as King.

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

Kolanut last long in the mouths of them who value it.

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

It is sickness that man can cure, not death

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