51 Creole Proverbs / Page 2
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Never dress in mourning before the dead man is in his coffin.22.
Never hang your hat higher than you can reach.23.
Never let a boy do a man's work.24.
Never mistake chicken shit for an egg.25.
Sick people have no friends.26.
Speaking French is no proof of intelligence.27.
Tell me who you love, and I'll tell you who you are.28.
Tell me whom you love, and I'll tell you who you are.29.
Thanks cost nothing.30.
The back dies for the shoulder and the shoulder knows nothing about it.31.
The beggar that begs near another beggar will never be rich.32.
The crow may be caged, but its thoughts are in the cornfield.33.
The ear is only a door.34.
The frog knows more about the rain than the calendar.35.
The goat that climbs up the rock also has to go down.36.
The higher the monkey climbs, the more it is exposed to danger.37.
The monkey knows which branch to swing on.38.
The mouth of a woman takes no holiday.39.
The parson christens his own child first.40.
The pumpkin vine never bears watermelons.