Ola Rotimi Quotes

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

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.

It is sickness that man can cure, not death

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

You do me great wrong, therefore to think that, like a rock in the middle of a lake, forever cooled by flowing waters, I do not know, and cannot know the sun's hotness that burns and dries up the open land.