The thing you do to others can be done to you.

Salt doesn't brag that it is salty.

Only those closest to a situation fully understand it.

If you don't care about your own problems, don't expect anyone else to care

Sooner or later you have to sleep

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

No good deed goes unpunished.

Be careful with things you don't fully understand

Common sense is better than formal education or learning.

Payment is more useful than expressions of gratitude

Unscrupulous people begrudge the successes of other unscrupulous people

God laughs at poetic justice

Laughter is the best medicine

Those who prosper by illegal or crooked means dislike those who are more successful than themselves via the same means

Problems often arrive without warning

If too many people are involved in a thing it will not be done well

Idleness creates wants

There can be too much of a good thing

People of limited means can improve themselves by working together and combining resources

Success requires hard work

Excessive greed puts one in danger of losing everything.

A funny bit of wordplay by deejay Shabba Ranks that depends on the overlapping pronunciations of 'ackee' (the food) and 'hockey' (the game). This pronunciation overlap is made stronger (and funnier) with the additional context that some Jamaicans have a tendency to add an intrusive 'h' at the start of words beginning with vowels and some Jamaicans have a tendency to drop the leading 'h' in words.

Train children properly before it's too late

The dead are soon forgotten.

When you try to hurt another be sure you aren't hurting yourself.

That which does not destroy you makes you stronger

That which causes merriment and pleasure now will cause grief and sorrow later.

One person's fun and games may have serious consequences for another.

Children invariably adopt all the bad attributes of their parents.

The race is not for the swift, slow and steady wins