253 Bajan Proverbs / Page 5
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In the presence of elderly people one must not pour water.82.
It is always the potato of another family's boy that extinguishes the fire.83.
It is he who got milk that is merciful.84.
It is not the owner, trampling his own field, that spoils it.85.
Kamau who is white becomes black.86.
Let sleeping dogs lie.87.
Make sure better than cock-sure.88.
Many people together lift up the 'ndiri'.89.
Meat has no choice morsel.90.
News don't lack a carrier.91.
No day dawns like another.92.
No evil, but only the good will last.93.
No married woman will have her white hair shaved at her mother's.94.
No partridge is small when it claws the soil.95.
No prepotent man will insult other people for two consecutive seasons.96.
No war has been fought by men carrying a calabash of 'njohi' but of 'ucuru'.97.
Nobody calls another's father 'dad'.98.
Nobody can see his own goodness: it can be seen only by others.99.
Nobody cares about other people's poverty.100.
Nobody entering a hut pays for the heart he will enjoy in it.