You can't see the whole sky through a bamboo tube.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about sky, contentment
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To bend a bamboo, start when it is a shoot.
Proverbs and old sayings Malaysian
If you see someone riding a bamboo-cane, tell him What a lovely horse!
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
Like bamboo shoots after rain.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about rain
One bamboo does not make a forest.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese
You can lean on a bamboo stick, but not on a rope.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment
When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about man
An image of a bamboo has already been formed in mind before it is committed to the painting canvas.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about painting, mind
The higher the bamboo, the more it can be bent.
Proverbs and old sayings
If a bamboo tube makes a loud sound, it is empty.
Proverbs and old sayings
The taller the bamboo grows, the lower it bends.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese
You can't see the whole sky through a bamboo pole.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about sky, contentment
By poking at a bamboo thicket, one drives out a snake.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese
You can't straighten a snake by putting it in a bamboo cane.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about contentment
The winds may fell the massive oak, but bamboo, bent even to the ground, will spring upright after the passage of the storm.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about spring
Just as a bamboo cane forms a round jet of water, so taking counsel together makes men of one mind.
Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about moral, mind, man, water
If you see him riding on a bamboo-cane, say to him, Good health to your horse!
Proverbs and old sayings Moroccan about good, good luck, contentment
He was burned, so he ran into the bamboo grove, but the grove caught fire.
Proverbs and old sayings about fire, fire brigade
Young bamboo trees are easy to bend.
Proverbs and old sayings Vietnamese
A tender bamboo cannot be eagerly desired for building.
Proverbs and old sayings
