Jamaican proverbs

Monkey mus' know weh 'im gwine put 'im tail, before 'im order trousiz.

Scratch an old woman's back and she will let you taste her pepper pot.

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

The umbrella was made for rainy days, the white man uses it for the sun.

I cow dod did know how him troat hole ton him wouldn't chance pear seed.

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

Keep both eyes open before you are married and afterwards close only one.

When you point your finger at someone, look where the other fingers point.

When cockroach get in a trouble, him well glad fe fun go hide a fowl-house.

When rat like fi romp 'roun' puss jaw, one diay 'im gwine en up inna puss craw.

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