Principles of Everyday Living Volume 1
WHAT GRANDMOTHER TAUGHT ME:
(Principles of Everyday Living Volume 1)
The road most likely traveled is the safest.
Could you show me your friends, and I will tell you who you are?
Lalling curie’ hue byway’ [ The moon runs eventually, day surprise it
One hand cannot clap; it takes two
It takes two to start a quarrel; one can always end it
Good children dodo butter, bad children dodo stones
The same stick that bit the black dog is the same stick that bit the white dog.
All that glitters is not gold.
You must sleep with the chickens to know if they snore.
Monkey see, monkey do.
Feed your enemy with a long spoon.
Who has cocoa in the sun, looking for rain?
Never hang your hat where your head cannot reach.
(Tanto’ Tanto’) Time will tell.
New broom sweeps clean.
One’s lover's fat does not stink.
Birds of a feather flock together.
A fool will make money, but a wise man will spend it.
You never miss the water until the well runs dry.
(Stones in the water wishing for dry land, whereas stones on dry land
Wishing for the water.)
Cook a child for a mother, and she will not eat. Cook a mother for a child, and she will.
Time and tide wait for no man; make hay while the sun shines.
You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours.
Waste not, want not.
Liars cannot look you straight in the eye.
Your secret is only safe with you; a friend will reveal it.
In my opinion, all that my grandmother taught me was right on point; it has now been revealed to me in my future years of living, and it’s a fact of life. Those words of my grandmother were uttered to me in her creole language, which at the time sounded like fiction stories, how wrong I was
The poet Kenvil Atkins Lewis
