To cultivate trees, you need 10 years. To cultivate people, you need 100 years.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about need, people
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese, page 77
1827 proverbs and old sayings indochinese
Once bitten by a snake, one is scared all his life at the mere sight of a rope.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about life
The tongue is soft but constantly remains; the teeth are hard yet they fall out.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about fall
Those who take medicine and neglect their diet waste the skill of the physician.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about diets, waste, medicine
People live like birds in the woods: When the time comes, each must take flight.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about flight, people, time
You can't be the head of a family unless you show yourself both stupid and deaf.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about family, heads
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about man
Good will be rewarded with good and evil with evil; it is only a matter of time.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about good, good luck, time
The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about man
He who does not regularly put on clean socks will never get used to circus life.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about circus, life
A weir close to completion left undone due to the shortage of a basket of earth.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about earth
Only the man who crosses the river at night knows the value of the light of day.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about value, light, night, day, man
The best cure for drunkenness is to observe a drunken person when you are sober.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about drunkenness, people
When traveling do not calculate the distance, at dinner don't think of how much.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese
With virtue you can't be entirely poor; without virtue you can't really be rich.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about virtue, wealth
When your horse is on the brink of a precipice it is too late to pull the reins.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about army
The farmer hopes for rain, the walker hopes for sunshine, and the gods hesitate.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about rain
Before you prepare to improve the world, look around your own house three times.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about world, home, house
Those who sacrifice their conscience to ambition burn a painting to obtain ashes.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about painting, sacrifice, ambition, conscience
