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43574 proverbs and old sayings

The loss of one night's sleep is followed by ten days of inconvenience.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about day, sleep, night

Weaving a net is better than praying for fish at the edge of the water.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about fishing, water

One beam, no matter how big, cannot support an entire house on its own.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about home, house

Fighting a wolf with a flex stalk - either side is afraid of the other.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

The people sitting in the free theater seats are the first ones to boo.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about people

He who does not know what to do in his spare time is not a businessman.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about time

Learn to handle a writing-brush and you'll never handle a begging-bowl.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about writing, contentment

Things will develop in the opposite direction when they become extreme.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about things

In face of evil, one would rather be a jade broken than a brick intact.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about face

Look not at thieves eating meat, but look at them suffering punishment.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about suffering, punishment, thieves

What is told into the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about man

Gems are polished by rubbing, just as men are made brilliant by trials.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about man

All people are your relatives, therefore expect only trouble from them.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about problems, people

Happiness is something to do, something to love, something to hope for.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about happiness, hope, love

To be for one day entirely at leisure is to be for one day an immortal.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about immortality, day

Great cry and little wool, as the fellow said when he sheared his hogs.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

There is no better sale than when you give a true friend what he needs.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

It is better to be entirely without a book than to believe it entirely.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about faith

Just because men do not like the cold, Heaven will not stop the winter.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about man

Who is inferior and is ashamed of it proves that he really is inferior.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese