Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese, page 68

1827 proverbs and old sayings indochinese

It takes more than one cold day for a river to freeze three feet deep.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about day

Life unfolds on a sheet called time and once finished is gone forever.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about life, time

If you want to know someone's character, look at the friends he keeps.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about character

What the superior man seeks in himself, the small man seeks in others.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about man

Better the cottage where one is merry than the palace where one weeps.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Flowers leave a part of their fragrance in the hands that bestow them.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about flowers

Enough shovels of earth make a mountain, enough pails of water a river.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about earth, water

Laws are useless when men are pure, unenforceable when men are corrupt.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about corruption, man

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 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

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