One never comes to pray in the Temple of Three Treasures if he is not in trouble.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about treasure, pray, problems
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese, page 78
1827 proverbs and old sayings indochinese
A dish of carrot hastily cooked may still has soil not cleaned off the vegetable.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese
When you lift your hand to strike, you are three-tenths lower than your opponent.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese
If you suspect a man, don't employ him, and if ypu employ him, don't suspect him.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about man
If you suspect a man, don't employ him, and if you employ him, don't suspect him.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about man
Virtuous for ten years is still not enough; evil for one day is too much already.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about day
He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about ambition, conscience
When the itch is inside the boot, scratching outside provides little consolation.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about consolation
When your horse in on the brink of a precipice, it is too late to pull the reins.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese
A small cottage wherein laughter lives is worth more than a castle full of tears.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about laughter, tears
Drunkenness does not itself cause bad qualities but it does show them up clearly.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about drunkenness, bad luck, bad
Who tells me of my faults is my teacher; who tells me of my virtues does me harm.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about teachers
There is no economy in going to bed early to save candles if the result is twins.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about economy
You can hardly make a friend in a year, but you can easily offend one in an hour.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese
If a man plants melons he will reap melons; if he sows beans, he will reap beans.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about man
One measures the towers by their shadows and great people by those who envy them.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about envy, people
When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese
The day your horse dies and your money's lost, your relatives change to strangers.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about change, money, day
If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hindred days of sorrow.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about moment, anger, day, sadness
A vacant mind is open to all suggestions, as a hollow mountain returns all sounds.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about mind
