Jamaican Proverbs and Inspirational Quotes

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

Too many cousins ruin the shopkeeper.
—Jamaican Proverb

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Clothes cover up character.
—Jamaican Proverb
Topics: Character

Curses like chickens come home to roost.
—Jamaican Proverb

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