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Pick an pick until yu pick shit
The excessively picky end up making poor choices
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Play fool fi ketch wise
Feign ignorance to one's advantage
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Play stone kill bud
One person's fun and games may have serious consequences for another.
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Poun a fret cyaa pay ounce a debt
Worrying does not improve a bad situation.
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Pudd'n cyaa bake widout fyah
You need the right tools for each job
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Puss belly full him say rat batty stink
Only contented people can afford to be choosy.
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Quattie bread full monkey belly
The poor or disadvantaged are easily satisfied
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Rain a fall but dutty tough
Income is coming in, but not enough to meet all needs
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rain neva fall a one man door
Some things affect everybody
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Rockstone a riva bottom nu know sun hot
Sheltered persons don't know true hardship or troubles.
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Saltfish de pan counta a wait pan bread an butta
Lazy people wait for rewards instead of working for them
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shoes alone know if stocking have hole
Only those closest to a situation fully understand it.
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Sick nu care, doctor worst
If you don't care about your own problems, don't expect anyone else to care
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sleep nu ha no massa
Sooner or later you have to sleep
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So much mout cyaa set fi tell di same lie
If everybody makes the same accusation then there must be some truth in it.
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Sorry fi mawga daag dem tun roun bite you.
No good deed goes unpunished.
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stranger nu know di deep wata
Be careful with things you don't fully understand
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'Tank yu' nu buy half bit bread
Payment is more useful than expressions of gratitude
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Teef neva love fi si teef wid long bag
Unscrupulous people begrudge the successes of other unscrupulous people
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Teef Teef from feef, God laugh
God laughs at poetic justice
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Tek kin teet kibba heart bun
Laughter is the best medicine
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Thief neva like fi see thief with long bag
Those who prosper by illegal or crooked means dislike those who are more successful than themselves via the same means
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Trouble nu set like rain
Problems often arrive without warning
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tu much ratta neva dig good hole
If too many people are involved in a thing it will not be done well
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tu much siddung bruk breeches
Idleness creates wants
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Tumuch callaloo mek peppa pot bitta
There can be too much of a good thing
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Victory nu come fram lie dung inna bead
Success requires hard work
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Want all, lose all.
Excessive greed puts one in danger of losing everything.
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We don't play hockey, we eat ackee
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.
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Wen yu gwine knock anansi memba di wall
When you try to hurt another be sure you aren't hurting yourself.
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