13 Martiniquais Proverbs
- 1. A dog doesn't like bananas, but he can't bear to think that chickens eat them.
 - 2. Breasts are never too heavy for the chest.
- 3. Chickens can't speak well of their own soup.
- 4. If an ox doesn't know the size of his arse he won't eat an apricot stone.
- 5. If you are born fat you will not die thin.
- 6. Not everybody who wears spurs is a jockey.
- 7. The blow is taken on the nose but it's the eyes that cry.
- 8. The good dog never gets a good bone.
- 9. The sheep drinks but it's the goat that gets drunk.
- 10. Thieves don't like to see their comrades carrying the bags.
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