I bought this book of proverbs when I went to Barbados last year...I hear dying wit laugh becasue i am trying to create a lesson on proverbs with my class...here are some that have me in stitches...

Yuh t'ink I is a Moojun cow?
Yuh wukkin groun' fuh monkey parade 'pon.
yuh look like yuh drink wha yuh did fuh 'noint wit.
yuh run from the gun mout and butt up on de shot.
Yuh sih de nigga face but yuh don sih nigga rass.
Cou cou nevah done til de pot tek down.
I ent drop down out a hollow tree.
follow follow kill monkey.
Fowl cock ent ha nuh right in bull dog fight
Handsome can' put in pot.
crapau' en ha nuh right in salt watah.

Just a few...

hmmm. i wonder if these european children will understand this...lol..

my mother always used to tell me

chicken merry hawk deh near

so true so soooooo true

we studied a bunch of these last semester in my afro-caribbean culture class.

oooh post some!!..if you can find your work...I love these proverbs...they're like goldmines of our culture

How watah walk go ah pumpkin belly?

Wey horse meet, jackass doz meet and pass
What sweet in goat mouth doz sour in he bam bam
All skin teeth ent ah laff
Seepaul luck eh Gopaul luck

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this is one out of trinidad:
what hurt eyes does make nose run

1.What sweet in goat mouth go sour in he bambam
2. Long rope for mugga (sp) goat

ok heres some more with their meanings:

Monkey dress e pickney (child) till he spoil. (Don’t try to over do something, keep it simple.)

Yuh can’t suck cane and blow whistle. (Do not try to carry out two tasks at the same time.)

Youth nah ah weary but he ah fall down. (When you are young you carry much burden, but as you get older you can take on only little responsibility.)

Yuh tel tara and tara tell tara. (When you tell a friend a secret soon everyone knows because your friend will tell another friend.)

When you want fuh swim river yuh gat fuh plunge inside fuss. ( You have to take risks when you attempt new ventures.)

Baby who ah cry ah house and ah door ah same thing. (The same manner in which you treat your child, you should treat another's.)

Big tree fall down, goat bite e leaf. (When a great man falls, he is no longer feared and respected.)

Cat foot soft but he ah scratch bad. (Some people may seem friendly and understanding, but to your surprise it is not really so.)

Cat a ketch rat, but he a teef e massa fish. (Good and evil come from the same source.)

Every bush a man nighttime. (Things seem worse than they really are when we are afraid.)

If yuh eye nah see, yuh mouth nah must talk. (You must see for yourself before you talk.)

When man mek eself sugar e mattie ah suck am. (Sometimes when you make yourself too kind your friends and associates will take advantage.)

Yuh can't fatten cow fuh another man butcher. (When you work hard and achieve something in life, you are not happy if it is taken away by others.)

Some pork-knockers does only clear track fuh monkey run race. (Some people do all the hard work but others benefit in the end.)

All cassava get same skin but all nah taste same way. (Though people may look alike because of their mode of dress, they are different in their ways.)

Cuss when yuh ah guh, nah wheh yuh ah come out.(You must not curse the place that you have come from, because sometime in the future you may have to return there.)

joke is joke, but damn joke eh no joke.
what is play fuh school chirren is death fuh crapaud
after joy is sorrow

Thanks..cause ah was wondering wha de ass they meant!..lol

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nah, keep dem.

me mudda does tell me to this day..
"Peter aguh pay fuh Paul, but Paul aguh pay fuh all..."

these are great...lol!!
..and dont we all know this one

If yuh cyan hear, yuh gonna feel