219 Jamaican Proverbs / Page 8
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Prayer from de mout' alone is no prayer.142.
Prayer only from the mouth is no prayer.143.
Pretty rose got macca jook.144.
Pudden cyaa bake widout fiah.145.
Puss an' Dog noh have di same luck.146.
Rat belly full, potato have skin.147.
Rockstone a riva battam noh know' sun hot.148.
Sarry fi maaga dog, maaga dog tu'n 'roun' bit yu.149.
Save money and money will save you.150.
Scratch an old woman's back and she will let you taste her pepper pot.151.
Sensa fowl no wan fedder, but him want carn.152.
Sleep has no master.153.
Sleepy turtles never catch up with the sunrise.154.
Some people clean a tap an' dutty underneath.155.
Spit in the sky, it falls in your eye.156.
Ston a riva battan nuh know sun hat157.
T'ief no love fi si t'ief carry long bag.158.
That which you do not know is older than you.159.
The black man steals just half of very little, but the white man steals the whole sugar plantation.160.
The higher the monkey climbs the more him expose.