Monkey mus' know weh 'im gwine put 'im tail, before 'im order trousiz.
Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about order
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Scratch an old woman's back and she will let you taste her pepper pot.
Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about woman, old, olderness
Before you married keep you' two eye open; after you married, shut one.
Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican
The umbrella was made for rainy days, the white man uses it for the sun.
Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about day, sun, man
I cow dod did know how him troat hole ton him wouldn't chance pear seed.
Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about chance
A lawyer looks at you with one eye, but he looks at your pocket with two.
Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican
Keep both eyes open before you are married and afterwards close only one.
Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about eyes
When you point your finger at someone, look where the other fingers point.
Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican
When cockroach get in a trouble, him well glad fe fun go hide a fowl-house.
Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about home, house
When rat like fi romp 'roun' puss jaw, one diay 'im gwine en up inna puss craw.
Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican
Noh care how boar hog try fi hide under sheep wool, 'im grunt always betray 'im.
Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican
You can stop a bird from flying over you, but you can't stop it building a nest.
Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican
If you want half a bread, beg smaddy buy it, but if yu want a wan, buy it yuself.
Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about commerce
When your own funeral is approaching, you don't pick and choose your grave diggers.
Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican
Darg-flea tell him pickeny him mustn't say him dead till him ketch pon finger nail.
Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican
If you want to know who your friends are, lie by the roadside and pretend to be drunk.
Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about lie
The black man steals just half of very little, but the white man steals the whole sugar plantation.
Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about magic, man
You can't prevent a bird from flying over your head, but you can prevent him from making a nest in your head.
Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about heads
