Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese, page 61

1827 proverbs and old sayings indochinese

What is whispered in your ear is often heard a hundred miles off.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about use

Do everything at the right time and one day will seem like three.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about rightness, time, day

Nobody's family can hang out the sign, Nothing the matter here.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about family, nothing

Only through the eyes of others can we really see our own faults.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about eyes

The man who wakes up and finds himself famous hasn't been asleep.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about man

Happy is the man without sickness. Rich is the man with no debts.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about happiness, wealth, man

Eight Immortals cross the sea, each employing his or her theurgy.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Fate leads those who are willing but must push those who are not.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about destiny

Pluck flowers as they bloom; wait and you'll have only the twigs.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about flowers

Do not forget little kindnesses and do not remember small faults.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about happiness

Choose your lodging before dark and leave before the morning dew.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about dark

There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about man, good, good luck

Those who play the game do not see as clearly as those who watch.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about games

Flowing water never goes bad; our door hubs never gather termites.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about bad luck, water, bad

Never be boastful; someone may come along who knew you as a child.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about children

The wise man asks questions of himself; the fool questions others.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about man

Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about heads, family, woman, man

The man who does not learn is dark, like one walking in the night.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about dark, night, man