Great Throughts Treasury

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

"Noh buy puss inna bag"

"Noh cup noh brok, noh coffee noh trow weh."

"No wait till drum beat before you grine you axe."

"Noh put yu cap wha yu caang reach it."

"Peacock hide him foot when him hear 'bout him tail."

"Peppa bu'n hot, but ih good fi curry."

"One, one cocoa full basket."

"Not everything you hear is good for conversation."

"Not everything that is good to eat is good to talk about."

"One-eye man a king a blind country."

"Ole fiyah tick easy fe ketch."

"One finger can't ketch louse"

"Pay the doctor, praise the Lord."

"Payshent man ride danki."

"Play wid puppy, Puppy lick yu mouth."

"Poun' ah fret cyaan pay ownse ah dett"

"Pretty rose got macca jook."

"Pit inna de sky, it fall inna yuh y'eye."

"Pudden cyaa bake widout fiah."

"Prayer from de mout' alone is no prayer."

"Plantain ripe, can't green again."

"Puss an' Dog noh have di same luck."

"Quatti buy chubble, hunjed poun' cyaan pay farri"

"Rat belly full, potato have skin."

"Rockstone a riva battam noh know' sun hot."

"Save money and money will save you."

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

"Sarry fi maaga dog, maaga dog tu'n 'roun' bit yu."

"Sleep has no master."

"Some people clean a tap an' dutty underneath."

"Self praise a no no rekumendayshan"

"Ston a riva battan nuh know sun hat"

"Sleepy turtles never catch up with the sunrise."

"Tek whey yuh get tell yu get whey yu want"

"Spit in the sky, it falls in your eye."

"That which you do not know is older than you."

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

"The higher the monkey climbs the more him expose."

"The hungry belly and the full belly do not walk the same road."

"The hungry fowl wakes early."

"The soldiers' blood, the general's reputation."

"The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat."

"The spider and the fly can't make a deal."

"Those who can?t dance blame it on the music."

"Them short fe singer when dem put peacock in a choir."

"Tideh fi mi, tomorrow fi yu."

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

"T'ief no love fi si t'ief carry long bag."

"Tired feet always say that the path is long."