Some Jamaican Proverbs :

[Kramer]

JAMAICAN PROVERBS


come see me and come live wid me two dif tings

cock roach have no business in a fowl dance
(see 2 ppl fighting , keep out of it)

if ya hav no horn ya hav no business in a bullfight

a stone in a riverbottom don’t know sun is hot

every sun hot has a shady tree spot

it better for ya to lose time than ya character

when crow fly too high him lose a feather


little bit a brains can get big mouth in trouble

alligator lay eggs but im no fowl
(things not always what they seem to be)

not everthing wit sugar is sweet

not every fish in sea is a shark

what is for ya cannot be un for ya

ya play with puppy lick ya face
play with big dawg bite ya



lie wit dawgs wake up with fleas

shake a mans hand , no shake his heart

when we run tings , tings no run us

when dawg flee bite ya , ya hafta scratch

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[Kramer]