“When you see your neighbour house burning, take water and wet yours.”
Learn from other people's misfortunes and take precautions before trouble reaches your own door.
— Traditional Grenada Wisdom, Grenada
Source: Traditional Grenada proverb, public-domain oral tradition
More Proverbs from Grenada
No matter how fast the moon runs, daylight will always catch up with it.
Wrongdoing or unresolved matters cannot be outrun forever — the truth or the consequence eventually catches up with you.
Play with puppy, puppy lick your mouth.
Being too familiar or overly friendly with people below your station, or without proper boundaries, invites disrespect.
What is joke for school children is death for crappo.
What feels like harmless fun to one person can be a matter of life and death to another, so consider how your actions affect others.
Two man-crab can't live in the same hole.
Two people of equally strong will or authority cannot share the same position; rivalry between them is inevitable.
What you plant is what you go reap.
Your actions determine your outcomes — you receive back what you put into life.
No matter how long the night, day must break.
Hard times always come to an end eventually; keep hope through hardship.