219 Jamaican Proverbs / Page 5
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If "How are you?" cost a cent, few would hear it.82.
If a flea had money, it would buy its own dog.83.
If chickens were judges, cockroaches would be sentenced.84.
If stars were loaves, many people would sleep out.85.
If you cannot dance, you will say the drumming is poor.86.
If you crape gourdy, you fin' worm-hole.87.
If you don't take it, you don't have it.88.
If you follow a fool, you're a fool yourself.89.
If you go a tump-a-foot dance, you must dance tump-a-foot.90.
If you saw what the river carried, you would never drink the water.91.
If you want half a bread, beg smaddy buy it, but if yu want a wan, buy it yuself.92.
If you want to know who your friends are, lie by the roadside and pretend to be drunk.93.
If you yearry debil a come, clear de way.94.
If yu cyaa tek di heat, get out a di kitchen.95.
If yu de shit, an' si certain people/person a come; sidong inna it.96.
It' better fi lose yu timedan yu character.97.
Keep both eyes open before you are married and afterwards close only one.98.
Keep your secret in your own gourdy.99.
Keep your shop and your shop will keep you.100.
Learn fe dance at home before you go abroad.