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Hog say the fus water im ketch im walla

Take advantage of the first opportunity.

When rat like ramp roun puss jaw, one day him gwine en up in puss craw

If you continually flirt with danger you will eventually get hurt.

Sorry fi mawga daag dem tun roun bite you.

No good deed goes unpunished.

Empty bag cyaa stan up

A hungry person cannot work

Poun a fret cyaa pay ounce a debt

Worrying doesn't solve problems

Crave all, get none at all

Excessive greed puts one in danger of losing everything.

Pepper bun hot but it good fi curry

Harsh advice may be good for you

Want all, lose all.

Excessive greed puts one in danger of losing everything.

Rockstone a riva bottom nu know sun hot

Sheltered persons don't know true hardship or troubles.

Howdy an tenk yu nu bruk no square

It never costs anything to be polite.

Bucket wid hole a battam nu have no business a riverside

Don't criticise others when you have faults of your own.

Wha nu kill fatten

That which does not destroy you makes you stronger

Finger neba say look ya, him say look yonda.

People never point out their own faults.

Hand go, hand come.

As you give, so shall you receive.

When yuh en got horse, ride cow.

Use the resources available to you.

De dog dat bring a bone will caah one

The person that gossips to you will gossip about you.

Fattening frog for snake

Taking care of a woman only for a next man to enjoy her.

So much mout cyaa set fi tell di same lie

If everybody makes the same accusation then there must be some truth in it.

A eyeful en a bellyful

Seeing is different from having.

accompong

A maroon chieftain after whom the town of Accompong in St. Elizabeth, Jamaica is named. He is thought to be from an Ashanti family and related to a nu