Great Throughts Treasury

"You shake man’s hand, you no shake his heart."

"The best passion is compassion."

"Prayer only from the mouth is no prayer."

"If you follow a fool, you're a fool yourself."

"Those who can't dance say the music is no good."

"A good conscience is better than a big wage."

"Barking saves biting."

"Make a friend when you don't need one."

"A greedy mek fly follow coffin go a hole."

"A little axe can cut down a big tree."

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

"A man with trousers that are too short should wear long suspenders."

"A new broom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows every corner."

"A little pepper burns a big man's mouth."

"A no want a fat mek nightingale foot 'tan' so ."

"A noh every mango got maggige."

"A no ebryting kum fram abuv a blessen"

"A noh siame diay leaf drop a river bottom it rotten."

"All kind of fish eat man, only shark get blame."

"A pound a fret can't pay an ounce a debt."

"Alligator shouldn' call hog long mout."

"Ackee lub fat, ocra lub salt"

"An old debt is better than an old grudge."

"Alligator lay egg, but 'im noh fowl."

"Bad luck wos dan Obeah."

"Beauty widout grace like rose widout smell."

"Beautiful woman, beautiful trouble."

"Befo' darg go widout supper, him nyam cockroach."

"Beggar beg from beggar him nebber get rich"

"Bifoe gud food pwile, meck belly bus"

"Blood follow vein."

"Behind the dog it is "dog," in front of it, it's "mister dog.""

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

"Bowl go, packy come"

"Boastin' man brudder a de liar."

"Bucket wid hole a battam have no business a riverside."

"Big blanket mek man sleep late."

"Bushes have ears, walls have eyes."

"Cack mowt kill cack."

"Chicken deh merry, Hawk deh near."

"Chip neber fly far from de block."

"Chubble deh a bush, Anancy cyah l'kum a yaad"

"Clothes cover up character."

"Cap no fit you, you no tek i' up."

"Chicken merry, hawk deh near."

"Cow non dead him wi shak him tail"

"Cowad man kip soun' bone."

"Cockroach nuh business inna fowl fight."

"Cockroach neber so drunk him walk a fowl yard."

"Cows do not indulge in horseplay."