Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about Contentment, page 11

281 proverbs and old sayings indochinese about contentment

Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you will be like him yourself.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

Do not believe that you will reach your destination without leaving the shore.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

Opinions are like nails: the more often you hit them the deeper they penetrate.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

To cultivate trees, you need 10 years. To cultivate people, you need 100 years.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

You can't be the head of a family unless you show yourself both stupid and deaf.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

The best cure for drunkenness is to observe a drunken person when you are sober.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

With virtue you can't be entirely poor; without virtue you can't really be rich.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

Before you prepare to improve the world, look around your own house three times.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

When you lift your hand to strike, you are three-tenths lower than your opponent.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

If you suspect a man, don't employ him, and if ypu employ him, don't suspect him.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

If you suspect a man, don't employ him, and if you employ him, don't suspect him.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

You can hardly make a friend in a year, but you can easily offend one in an hour.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hindred days of sorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

Hold back some goods for a thousand days and you will be sure to sell at a profit.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

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 contentment

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 contentment

You must have crossed the river before you may tell the crocodile he has bad breath.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

Even when a girl is as shy as a mouse, you still have to beware of the tiger within.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment