Tell me, I'll forget. Show me, I may remember. But involve me, and I'll understand.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese
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43574 proverbs and old sayings
How can you put out a fire set on a cart-load of firewood with only a cup of water.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about fire, fire brigade, water, contentment
Before preparing to improve the world, first look around your own home three times.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about home, world
Those who labor with their minds rule; those who labor with their bodies are ruled.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about rules
People can no more be judged by their looks than the sea can be measured in bushels.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about people
He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about life
You must have crossed the river before you may tell the crocodile he has bad breath.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about bad luck, bad, contentment
One should be just as careful in choosing one's pleasures as in avoiding calamities.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese
Even ugly faces are worth looking at -- and that is a great comfort for most people.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about people
When there are no great tigers in the deep mountains, even a monkey can become king.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese
Even when a girl is as shy as a mouse, you still have to beware of the tiger within.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment
So lovers, to their fair one fondly blind, E'en on her ugliness with transport gaze.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about ugliness, blind
We forget even incense in easy times; come hard times, we embrace the Buddha's feet.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about moment, anger, day, sadness, contentment
When people are no longer afraid of death, there is no use threatening them with it?
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about use, death, people
Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese
Guard against disgrace in times of favor; be prepared for danger in times of safety.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about safety, danger
The day your horse dies and your money's gone, your relatives change into strangers.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about change, money, day
Force tells weak from strong for a moment; truth tells right from wrong all the time.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about moment, force, police, bad, rightness, truth, time
It is a little thing to starve to death; it is a serious matter to lose one's virtue.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about virtue, things, death
