Jamaican Proverbs (213 Proverbs)
- When yu go a fireside an' see food, eat half an' lef' half.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- When yu go a Jackass yard, yu noh fi chat 'bout big iyaz.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Wherever there are bones, there are dogs.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Who ha' fingernail no ha' itch, and who ha' itch no ha' fingernail.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- You can't prevent a bird from flying over your head, but you can prevent him from making a nest in your head.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- You nebber see kicking' cow widout kickin'calf.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- You nebber see pop-gun kill alligator.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- When kitchen dresser tumble dung, maaga dog laugh.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- When rat like fi romp 'roun' puss jaw, one diay 'im gwine en up inna puss craw.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- When visitors come a wi fireside, wi mek wi pot smell nice.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- When water trow weh i' cyaa pick up.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Before you married keep you' two eye open; after you married, shut one.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Daylight sho t'rough lilly keyhole.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Every man know whe' him own house de leak.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- If stars were loaves, many people would sleep out.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Man noh dead, noh call 'im duppy.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- No mek one donkey choke you.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Rockstone a riva battam noh know' sun hot.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Wha' noh poison, fatten.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Beggar beg from beggar him nebber get rich
(Jamaican Proverb)
- De bes a field mus' hab weed.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Every mickle mek a mockle.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- If you cannot dance, you will say the drumming is poor.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Man noh done cross riva, noh fi cuss alligator long mout long.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- No put youself in a barrel when match box can hol you.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Sarry fi maaga dog, maaga dog tu'n 'roun' bit yu.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Wha sweet nanny-goat a go run him belly.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Blood follow vein.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- De higher monkey climb de more him expose.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Feel like Gumbeh drum widout a goat-skin.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- If you crape gourdy, you fin' worm-hole.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Manners mek di man.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Noh care how boar hog try fi hide under sheep wool, 'im grunt always betray 'im.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Sensa fowl no wan fedder, but him want carn.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- What darg see him bark all night, ramgoat see it no trouble him.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Boastin' man brudder a de liar.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- De tune you playing no de one I dancing.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Fill your basket one item at a time.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- If you go a tump-a-foot dance, you must dance tump-a-foot.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Manners tek yu thru' di worl'.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Noh cup noh brok, noh coffee noh trow weh.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Some people clean a tap an' dutty underneath.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- What de good a education if him got no sense?
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Bucket wid hole a battam have no business a riverside.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Dem give yu basket fi carry water.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Finger stink you can't cut it trow it wey.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- If you want half a bread, beg smaddy buy it, but if yu want a wan, buy it yuself.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Marriage has teeth and it bites hard.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Noh put yu cap wh? yu caang reach it.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Spit in the sky, it falls in your eye.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- When ashes cole darg sleep in dey.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- A greedy mek fly follow coffin go a hole.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Cap no fit you, you no tek i' up.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Di daakes' part a di night, a when diay soon light.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Fish-bone no lodge in a pickney troat alone.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- If you yearry debil a come, clear de way.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Me no call you no come
(Jamaican Proverb)
- One finger can't ketch louse
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Ston a riva battan nuh know sun hat
(Jamaican Proverb)
- When bull ole him feed a fence side.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- A noh every mango got maggige.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Chicken deh merry, Hawk deh near.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Duppy knwo who fi frighten.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Frog never gargle him troat till him tas'e fresh water.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- If yu cyaa tek di heat, get out a di kitchen.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Mi come here fi drink milk, mi noh come here fi count cow.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- One, one cocoa full basket.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- The higher the monkey climbs the more him expose.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- When cockroach get in a trouble, him well glad fe fun go hide a fowl-house.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- A noh siame diay leaf drop a river bottom it rotten.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Chip neber fly far from de block.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Eat fam'bly bittle but no cut fam'bly 'tory.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Fry de bigh fish fust, te lilly one after.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- If yu de shit, an' si certain people/person a come; sidong inna it.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Monkey mus' know weh 'im gwine put 'im tail, before 'im order trousiz.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- One-eye man a king a blind country.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- The hungry belly and the full belly do not walk the same road.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- When crab walk too much him los' him claw.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- A pound a fret can't pay an ounce a debt.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Cockroach neber so drunk him walk a fowl yard.
(Jamaican Proverb)
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