Creole Proverbs (49 proverbs)
- A beautiful funeral does not ...
- A fisherman never says ...
- Bathe other people's children but ...
- Be sure that the candle is lit before ...
- Better your own cod ...
- Cowardly men, ...
- Cutting off a mule's ears ...
- Don't call the alligator "big-mouth" ...
- Don't hang all your ...
- Ears have ...
- Eat with your mouth, ...
- Firm breasts don't ...
- Good looking and good luck don't ...
- If there were no sighing in the ...
- If you don't lift the skirt of a bride ...
- If you make yourself into a doormat, ...
- If you see what the ducks eat ...
- It's by following his friends that ...
- Laugh at the rice and you ...
- Never dress in mourning before ...
- Never hang your hat higher ...
- Never let a boy ...
- Never mistake chicken ...
- Sick people have ...
- Speaking French is no ...
- Tell me whom you love and ...
- Thanks cost ...
- The back dies for the shoulder and the ...
- The beggar that begs near another ...
- The crow may be caged, but its ...
- The ear is only ...
- The frog knows more about ...
- The goat that climbs up the ...
- The higher the monkey climbs, the ...
- The monkey knows which ...
- The mouth of a woman ...
- The parson christens ...
- The pumpkin vine never ...
- The sea breeze blows the pelican ...
- The tail of an ox says, ...
- What you don't know ...
- What you lose in the fire, ...
- When the big fish fight ...
- When the crocodile says that the river ...
- You can hate the dog, but do not tell ...
- You can make a mule cross the river but ...
- You may hide the fire, but ...
- You must have slept with jean ...
- You never meet your mother-in-law on ...
