Creole Proverbs

If there were no sighing in the world, the world would stifle. Creole Proverbs Image

If there were no sighing in the world, the world would stifle.

Bathe other people’s children but don’t wash behind their ears. Creole Proverbs Image

Bathe other people’s children but don’t wash behind their ears.

You can make a mule cross the river but you cant make him drink the water. Creole Proverbs Image

You can make a mule cross the river but you cant make him drink the water.

You can hate the dog, but do not tell him that his teeth are dirty. Creole Proverbs Image

You can hate the dog, but do not tell him that his teeth are dirty.

Cowardly men, healthy bones. Creole Proverbs Image

Cowardly men, healthy bones.

If you see what the ducks eat then you eat no more duck. Creole Proverbs Image

If you see what the ducks eat then you eat no more duck.

Laugh at the rice and you will weep for the lentil. Creole Proverbs Image

Laugh at the rice and you will weep for the lentil.

Never dress in mourning before the dead man is in his coffin. Creole Proverbs Image

Never dress in mourning before the dead man is in his coffin.

The sea breeze blows the pelican where he wants to go. Creole Proverbs Image

The sea breeze blows the pelican where he wants to go.

The crow may be caged, but its thoughts are in the cornfield. Creole Proverbs Image

The crow may be caged, but its thoughts are in the cornfield.

You may hide the fire, but what about the smoke? Creole Proverbs Image

You may hide the fire, but what about the smoke?

Speaking french is no proof of intelligence. Creole Proverbs Image

Speaking french is no proof of intelligence.

Thanks cost nothing. Creole Proverbs Image

Thanks cost nothing.

Never mistake chicken shit for an egg. Creole Proverbs Image

Never mistake chicken shit for an egg.

Never let a boy do a man’s work. Creole Proverbs Image

Never let a boy do a man’s work.

Never hang your hat higher than you can reach. Creole Proverbs Image

Never hang your hat higher than you can reach.

The frog knows more about the rain than the calendar. Creole Proverbs Image

The frog knows more about the rain than the calendar.

Be sure that the candle is lit before you throw away the match. Creole Proverbs Image

Be sure that the candle is lit before you throw away the match.

The goat that climbs up the rock also has to go down. Creole Proverbs Image

The goat that climbs up the rock also has to go down.

The mouth of a woman takes no holiday. Creole Proverbs Image

The mouth of a woman takes no holiday.

The higher the monkey climbs, the more it is exposed to danger. Creole Proverbs Image

The higher the monkey climbs, the more it is exposed to danger.

The parson christens his own child first. Creole Proverbs Image

The parson christens his own child first.

When the big fish fight the shrimps must lie low. Creole Proverbs Image

When the big fish fight the shrimps must lie low.

When the crocodile says that the river crossing is deep you must believe it. Creole Proverbs Image

When the crocodile says that the river crossing is deep you must believe it.

Don’t hang all your clothes on one hook. Creole Proverbs Image

Don’t hang all your clothes on one hook.

What you don’t know is bigger than you. Creole Proverbs Image

What you don’t know is bigger than you.

What you lose in the fire, you will find in the ashes. Creole Proverbs Image

What you lose in the fire, you will find in the ashes.

The tail of an ox says, “time goes, time comes.” Creole Proverbs Image

The tail of an ox says, “time goes, time comes.”

The back dies for the shoulder and the shoulder knows nothing about it. Creole Proverbs Image

The back dies for the shoulder and the shoulder knows nothing about it.

The beggar that begs near another beggar will never be rich. Creole Proverbs Image

The beggar that begs near another beggar will never be rich.

A beautiful funeral does not necessarily lead to paradise. Creole Proverbs Image

A beautiful funeral does not necessarily lead to paradise.

Better your own cod than another’s duck. Creole Proverbs Image

Better your own cod than another’s duck.

The monkey knows which branch to swing on. Creole Proverbs Image

The monkey knows which branch to swing on.

The pumpkin vine never bears watermelons. Creole Proverbs Image

The pumpkin vine never bears watermelons.

Ears have no covers. Creole Proverbs Image

Ears have no covers.

Eat with your mouth, pay with your back. Creole Proverbs Image

Eat with your mouth, pay with your back.

Good looking and good luck don’t always walk the same road. Creole Proverbs Image

Good looking and good luck don’t always walk the same road.

If you dig a pit for me, you dig one for yourself. Creole Proverbs Image

If you dig a pit for me, you dig one for yourself.

Cutting off a mule’s ears doesn’t make it a horse. Creole Proverbs Image

Cutting off a mule’s ears doesn’t make it a horse.

If you don’t lift the skirt of a bride you don’t know what she wears under it. Creole Proverbs Image

If you don’t lift the skirt of a bride you don’t know what she wears under it.

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