Bajan proverbs

To despise the ox means to despise also a strip of hide from it.

There is no pleasure that does not cause one's cheeks to tremble.

The village, which has got a whetstone, does not blunt the knife.

The animal caught in the trap does not refuse to set itself free.

No married woman will have her white hair shaved at her mother's.

When the food is cooked there is no need to wait before eating it.

The cooking pot on the fire leaks, when pouring water it is broken.

The animal rambling in the stable makes the sleeping ones rise too.

The hyena does not eat its baby, and you know how insatiable it is.

The ox which has no horns, relies for help on the one that has them.

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