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People nuh stone mango tree when it naw bear.

People attack you for your successes

Pepper bun hot but it good fi curry

Harsh advice may be good for you

Pick an pick until yu pick shit

The excessively picky end up making poor choices

Play fool fi ketch wise

Feign ignorance to one's advantage

Play stone kill bud

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

Poun a fret cyaa pay ounce a debt

Worrying doesn't solve problems

Pudd'n cyaa bake widout fyah

You need the right tools for each job

Puss belly full him say rat batty stink

Only contented people can afford to be choosy.

Quattie bread full monkey belly

The poor or disadvantaged are easily satisfied

Rain a fall but dutty tough

Income is coming in, but not enough to meet all needs

rain neva fall a one man door

Some things affect everybody

Rockstone a riva bottom nu know sun hot

Sheltered persons don't know true hardship or troubles.

Saltfish de pan counta a wait pan bread an butta

Lazy people wait for rewards instead of working for them

shoes alone know if stocking have hole

Only those closest to a situation fully understand it.

Sick nu care, doctor worst

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

sleep nu ha no massa

Sooner or later you have to sleep

So much mout cyaa set fi tell di same lie

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

Sorry fi mawga daag dem tun roun bite you.

No good deed goes unpunished.

stranger nu know di deep wata

Be careful with things you don't fully understand

'Tank yu' nu buy half bit bread

Payment is more useful than expressions of gratitude

Teef neva love fi si teef wid long bag

Unscrupulous people begrudge the successes of other unscrupulous people

Teef Teef from feef, God laugh

God laughs at poetic justice

Tek kin teet kibba heart bun

Sometimes all you can do is laugh and make the best of a bad situation

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

Trouble nu set like rain

Problems often arrive without warning

tu much ratta neva dig good hole

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

tu much siddung bruk breeches

Idleness creates wants

Tumuch callaloo mek peppa pot bitta

There can be too much of a good thing

Victory nu come fram lie dung inna bead

Success requires hard work

Want all, lose all.

Excessive greed puts one in danger of losing everything.