Jamaican Proverbs Archives

If you yearry debil a come, clear de way. Keep clear of trouble If yu cyaa tek di heat, get

Today’s Proverbs

If you crape gourdy, you fine worm-hole If you hunt for faults you will find them. If you go a

Han’ go, paki come. When you reach out a hand good things come back to you. Heart No Leap”, “See

Every mickle mek a mockle. Every little adds up. Feel like Gumbeh drum widout a goat-skin. To feel out of

Di daakes’ part a di night, a when diay soon light. When thing and times are the hardest, brighter times

Cow non dead him wi shak him tail While there is life there is hope Cow sey Tan upno mean

Beggar beg from beggar him nebber get rich. You can’t get blood out of stone. Bucket wid hole a battam

Alligator lay egg, but ‘im noh fowl. Things are not always what they seem to be. Not because people do

A noh siame diay leaf drop a river bottom it rotten. Time is the master. One will wait a long

A new broom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows every corner”. A profoundly witty statement that sums up any