Author of quotes: Chinua Achebe

The person who asks questions will never go astray.

But here is what keep in mind this is only the beginning of those troubles that'll bring palm wine. This thirst eventually kills the person.

The behaviour of the son was to the father like a heavy load on the head. After a few days, thinking Ezeulu should be the bride Obici. She'd already come, do not get her mother. And what husband will find it upon arrival! Man, unable to guard the night his house because he was lying dead drunk drunk palm wine. And what man such a spouse? The man who can't protect his wife if it will break in the night robbers. The man in the morning rises from bed women. Ugh! - spat the old priest. He could not hold back the disgust.

After all, who invites his relatives to a feast does not do it in order to save them from starvation. All of them have home food. When we all get together on the Playground, bathed in moonlight, we're not doing it for moon. Everyone can see the moon from your own backyard. We get together because there is nothing better for a family than to get everyone together. You ask me why am I saying all this. I say all this because I fear for our younger generation, for you young people. And he pointed to the side, where sat a youth. The most I have left quite a bit. And Uchendu too, and Unachukwu, and Amaro. But I fear for you young, because you are not aware of how strong bonds of kinship. You don't know what it means to speak in one voice.

- Like we do when man blasphemes? Did we close his mouth? No. We stop up her ears not to hear. And this is wisdom.
- Let's not talk like cowards, said Okonkwo. - If a man comes into my hut and shits on the floor like I do? You close your eyes? No! I take a stick and break his head open. So a man does.

It is true that a child belongs to the father. But if the father beats his child, the child looks for protection at the cabin mother. While everything in life goes well and smoothly, the man belongs to the homeland of his father. But when trouble comes to man and his heart bears the sorrow he seeks refuge in the homeland of his mother.

No matter how rich a man is, if he can not keep in subjection of their wives and children, especially wives, - it is not a real man.

Those who are well-wishers helped to split the fruit of the oil palm, should not forget modesty.

The old saying that the sun lights up first, who stands upright, and then those who stand on his knees.

Life is like a dancing mask, if you want to see it properly, stand in one place.

When your door is knocking trouble is, and you tell her that the house was no place to sit, she says, "don't worry, I came with my bench".

If people were looking for a companion who will be around to do it, he would live life alone.

But in all large buildings must be people with different inclinations: good and bad, brave men and cowards, bringing wealth and squander it, able to give good advice and know only the language of palm wine. Therefore we say: what music will play in the big house man, there will always be a dancer, able to dance under it.

The man who brings home firewood infested with ants should not complain if his house into the habit of the lizard.