1. Ant follow fat, fat drown ant (Shows the negative effect of greed)

2. Bad ting no hab owner (No one ever owns up to a bad deed)

3. You nebber see empty bag tan up (If you are hungry you cannot work)

4. No put youself in a barrel when match-box can hol' you (Do not pretend to be more important than you are)

5. De Lard gib beard a them who no hab chin fe wear i (Some people have advantages that they cannot make use of)

6. Wha sweet a mout sometime hot a belly (First impressions are often wrong)

7. Big blanket mek man sleep late (Luxury encourages idleness)

8. Dry tump a cane-piece no fe laugh when cane piece ketch fire (Don't laugh at others' trouble: you yourself may suffer)

9. Bad name nebber kill darg (Never mind the scandal of this world)

10. When six yeye meet 'tory done (The intervention of a third person stops many a story)

11. Black fowl no fe you, you call him John Crow (You belittle what is not yours)

12. When herrin mauger, him bone show (Evil deeds will reveal themselves)

13. Ebery John Crow tink him pickney white (What is one's own is always the best)

14. Me lub pickney but me no nyam wid dem (Familiarity breeds contempt)