Jamaican Proverbs and Inspirational Quotes

Keep both eyes open before you are married and afterwards close only one.
—Jamaican Proverb
Topics: Eyes

Too many cousins ruin the shopkeeper.
—Jamaican Proverb

To eat an egg, you must break the shell.
—Jamaican Proverb

A good conscience is better than a big wage.
—Jamaican Proverb
Topics: Conscience

If you follow a fool, you’re a fool yourself.
—Jamaican Proverb
Topics: Follow

Clothes cover up character.
—Jamaican Proverb
Topics: Character

It’s the willing horse they saddle the most.
—Jamaican Proverb

Those who can’t dance say the music is no good.
—Jamaican Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Dance, Dancing

The soldiers’ blood, the general’s reputation.
—Jamaican Proverb
Topics: Reputation

Prayer only from the mouth is no prayer
—Jamaican Proverb
Topics: Prayer

Curses like chickens come home to roost.
—Jamaican Proverb

Marriage has teeth and it bites hard.
—Jamaican Proverb
Topics: Marriage

If you want to know who your friends are, lie by the roadside and pretend to be drunk.
—Jamaican Proverb
Topics: Drunkenness