Proverbs and old sayings about Contentment, page 147

5134 proverbs and old sayings about contentment

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

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about contentment

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

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about contentment

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

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about contentment

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

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about contentment

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

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about contentment

If you go a tump-a-foot dance, you must dance tump-a-foot.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about contentment

If you saw what the river carried, you would never drink the water.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about contentment

When you buy beef, you buy bones; when you buy land, you buy rocks.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about contentment

Scratch an old woman's back and she will let you taste her pepper pot.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about contentment

Before you married keep you' two eye open; after you married, shut one.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about contentment

A lawyer looks at you with one eye, but he looks at your pocket with two.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about contentment

Keep both eyes open before you are married and afterwards close only one.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about contentment

When you point your finger at someone, look where the other fingers point.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about contentment

You can stop a bird from flying over you, but you can't stop it building a nest.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about contentment

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 contentment

When your own funeral is approaching, you don't pick and choose your grave diggers.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about contentment

If you want to know who your friends are, lie by the roadside and pretend to be drunk.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about contentment

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 contentment

You know your body best.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about contentment

Difficulties make you a jewel.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about contentment