Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about Home, page 3

52 proverbs and old sayings indochinese about home

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

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about home

Away from home they look at your clothes. At home they look at what is under them.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about home

When the lamps in the house are lit it is like the flowering of lotus on the lake.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about home

Before preparing to improve the world, first look around your own home three times.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about home

If everyone swept the pavement in front of his house, the whole street would be clean.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about home

Whoever buys a house must examine the beams; whoever wants a wife must look at her mother.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about home

A bride received into the home is like a horse that you have just bought; you break her in by constantly mounting her and continually beating her.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about home

If the main timbers in the house are not straight, the smaller timber will be unsafe; and if the smaller timbers are not straight, the house will fall.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about home

On entering a country, ask what is forbidden, on entering a village, ask what are the customs, on entering a private house, ask what should not be mentioned.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about home

Going into a country the first time, ask what is forbidden; on entering a village, ask what are the customs; on entering a private house, ask what should not be mentioned.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about home

If there is beauty in character, there will be harmony in the home. If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about home