Jamaican proverbs

Noh care how boar hog try fi hide under sheep wool, 'im grunt always betray 'im.

You can stop a bird from flying over you, but you can't stop it building a nest.

If you want half a bread, beg smaddy buy it, but if yu want a wan, buy it yuself.

When your own funeral is approaching, you don't pick and choose your grave diggers.

Darg-flea tell him pickeny him mustn't say him dead till him ketch pon finger nail.

If you want to know who your friends are, lie by the roadside and pretend to be drunk.

The black man steals just half of very little, but the white man steals the whole sugar plantation.

You can't prevent a bird from flying over your head, but you can prevent him from making a nest in your head.

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