253 Bajan Proverbs / Page 11
201.
There is no rain which does not enrich someone.202.
There is no thing which does not cause another to exist.203.
There is no tree which a panting animal would not cling to.204.
There is not the son of the front and the son of the back.205.
There is nothing without a cause.206.
To blame the wind for the rain that does not fall.207.
To despise the ox means to despise also a strip of hide from it.208.
To eat much leaves you with a swollen belly.209.
To forget a strong man who could help you is the same as to scorn him.210.
To forget is the same as to throw away.211.
To seek a woman to the belly.212.
Too much weight does break down de scale.213.
Trouble don't set up like rain.214.
Two poor cows does make up good dung.215.
Two rich persons do not wish each other a bird of ill omen.216.
Virtue is better than riches.217.
Virtue is power.218.
Vultures arrive at the place where the goat is slaughtered.219.
Wait till yuh trough put, then bubble in it.220.
Water does run, but blood does clod.