Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese, page 80

1827 proverbs and old sayings indochinese

You can't look at the stars while you are walking if you have a stone in your shoe.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about celebrity, stars

A man is old when he takes the whole night to do what he used to do all night long.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about night, man, old, olderness

Insanity is doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a different outcome.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about things

There are many paths up the mountain, but the view from the top is always the same.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

A teacher is someone who ploughs with his tongue to fill his little bowl with rice.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about teachers

To know another is not to know that person's face, but to know that person's heart.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about people, heart, face

It is not economical to go to bed early to save the candles if the result is twins.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

The man will surely fail, who dares delay, And lose to-morrow that has lost to-day.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about day, man

Tell me, I'll forget. Show me, I may remember. But involve me, and I'll understand.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

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

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

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

So lovers, to their fair one fondly blind, E'en on her ugliness with transport gaze.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about ugliness, blind