Ola Rotimi Quotes

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

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

A man who cannot control his wife is like a chief who cannot control his subjects.

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

Now my people, when trees fall on trees, first the topmost must be removed.

My people. Children of our fathers. Sickness is like rain. Does the rain fall on one roof alone? No. Does it fall on one body and not on another? No. Whoever the rain sees, on him it rains. Does it not? It is the same with sickness.

He picks up a comb from the table, blows dust and loose hair off it. But as he leans forward with the comb to dig into Man’s hair, Man jerks his head backwards, dodging the Barber’s contact. Barber’s hands halt in mid-air, himself startled.

When the rain falls on the leopard, does it wash off its spots? Has the richness of kingly life washed off the love of our King for his people?

It is sickness that man can cure, not death

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

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...

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.

Some people have started gathering in groups with people of their own kind. That too must stop