If you want to know who your friends are, lie by the roadside and pretend to be drunk.
Keep both eyes open before you are married and afterwards close only one.
Keep your secret in your own gourdy.
Make a friend when you don't need one.
Marriage has teeth and it bites hard.
Marriage has teeth, and him bite very hot.
Meat that the cat brings in never gets to your plate.
No call alligator long mouth till you pass him.
Not everything that is good to eat is good to talk about.
Not everything you hear is good for conversation.
Pay the doctor, praise the Lord.
Prayer only from the mouth is no prayer.
Save money and money will save you.
Scratch an old woman's back and she will let you taste her pepper pot.
Sleep has no master.
Sleepy turtles never catch up with the sunrise.
That which you do not know is older than you.
The black man steals just half of very little, but the white man steals the whole sugar plantation.
The hungry fowl wakes early.
The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat.
The soldiers' blood, the general's reputation.
