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• No call alligator long mouth till you pass him. Jamaican Proverb
• Before you marry, keep your two eyes open; after you marry, shut one. -- Jamaican proverb
• If you saw what the river carried, you would never drink the water. Jamaican Proverb
• A proverb is no proverb to you till life has illustrated it. John Kea
• Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. American Proverb
• Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
  -- John Keats (1795-1821), Correspondence, 1819...
• Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
  -- John Kea...
• A man must sit with his mouth open for a long time befpre a roast duck flies in.
  -- Chinese proverb...
• Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been leant to you. Belgian Proverb