Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican, page 9

218 proverbs and old sayings jamaican

You shake a man's hand, you don't shake his heart.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about heart, man

Every dog got dem diay, Every puss dem 4 O' clock.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican

If How are you? cost a cent, few would hear it.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican

Di daakes' part a di night, a when diay soon light.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about light, night

A noh siame diay leaf drop a river bottom it rotten.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about salary

Nanny-goat neber? cratch him back till him see wall.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican

Them short fe singer when dem put peacock in a choir.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican

Ebery day debil help tief, one day god help watchman.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about help, day, god

Meat that the cat brings in never gets to your plate.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican

Bucket wid hole a battam have no business a riverside.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about affair

Han'some face and good luck don' trabble de same pass.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about good luck, bad luck, face, good

Virtue never goes far without the company of idleness.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about companies, virtue

No put youself in a barrel when match box can hol you.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican

If you cannot dance, you will say the drumming is poor.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about dance

Frog never gargle him troat till him tas'e fresh water.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about water

New broom sweep clean, but de ole broom know de corner.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican

If chickens were judges, cockroaches would be sentenced.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about judges

Ebery day a fishing-day, but no ebery day fe ketch fish.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about day

You will often see a high collar above an empty stomach.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican

When yu go a Jackass yard, yu noh fi chat 'bout big iyaz.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about garden