One cannot manage too many affairs; like pumpkins in water, one pops up while you try to hold down the other.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about water
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1827 proverbs and old sayings indochinese
The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about olderness, age, woman, old
Never does a woman lie in a more cunning way than when she tells the truth to someone who doesn't believe her.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about faith, lie, truth, woman
If you must play, decide on three things at the start the rules of he game, the stakes, and the quitting time.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about rules, games, things, time
A flower you plant may not necessarily bloom; but the seed of a tree you happen to drop may grow into a forest.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about garden
Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about spring, shadow, happiness, rain
As long as time is not pressing one does not burn incense; when it becomes urgent one kisses the feet of Buddha.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about kiss, time
Think about your own faults during the first half of the night, and the faults of others during the second half.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about night
To listen well is as powerful a means of influence as to talk well and is as essential to all true conversation.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about essential, influence, conversation
The wound caused by a sword can eventually be healed; the hurt resulted from vicious remarks can never be undone.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese
He who is not satisfied with himself will grow; he who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about things
Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about pleasure, marriage, garden, wine
If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about rules, games, things, time
In the midst of great joy do not promise a man anything; in the midst of great anger do not answer a man's letter.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about promise, joy, anger, man
It is better to save your innocence at the cost of your honor, than to save your country at the cost of your life.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about innocence, country, life
A dog won't forsake his master because of poverty; a son never deserts his mother because of her homely appearance.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about poverty, mother
The conversation of the wise concerns ideas; that of the intelligent is about ideas; the common folk talk about food.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about conversation, common sense, food
A country where flowers are priced so as to make them a luxury has yet to learn the first principles of civilization.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about civilization, flowers, country
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about truth
Do something good and your neighbor will never know, do something bad and they will hear about it a hundred miles away.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about bad luck, bad, good, good luck
