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If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will spare yourself one hundred days of tears.

Proverbs and old sayings Cambodian about moment, tears, anger, day, contentment

The immature rice stalk stands erect, while the mature stalk, heavy with grain, bends over.

Proverbs and old sayings Cambodian

Don't take the straight path or the winding path. Take the path your ancestors have taken.

Proverbs and old sayings Cambodian about ancestors

Don't reject the crooked road and don't take the straight one, instead take the one traveled by the ancestors.

Proverbs and old sayings Cambodian about ancestors

If you know a lot, know enough to make them respect you, if you are stupid, be stupid enough so they can pity you.

Proverbs and old sayings Cambodian about respect, contentment

The rain falls on only one roof.

Proverbs and old sayings Cameroonian about rain

Knowledge is better than riches.

Proverbs and old sayings Cameroonian about wealth, knowledge

The flood takes him in, and the ebb takes him out.

Proverbs and old sayings Cameroonian

If you do not step on the dog's tail, he will not bite you.

Proverbs and old sayings Cameroonian about contentment

When the vine entwines your roof, it is time to cut it down.

Proverbs and old sayings Cameroonian about time

Thought is free.

Proverbs and old sayings Cameroonian about thinking

Beauty is an empty calabash.

Proverbs and old sayings Cameroonian about beauty

Water always finds a way out.

Proverbs and old sayings Cameroonian about water

Better little than too little.

Proverbs and old sayings Cameroonian

Singing birds don't build nests.

Proverbs and old sayings Cameroonian

There is no doctor on the day you die.

Proverbs and old sayings Cameroonian about death, day, contentment

A friend is worth more than a brother.

Proverbs and old sayings Cameroonian

A building of sand falls as you build it.

Proverbs and old sayings Cameroonian about contentment

She is like a road -- pretty, but crooked.

Proverbs and old sayings Cameroonian

The fire cannot be put out with your hands.

Proverbs and old sayings Cameroonian about fire, fire brigade
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