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Love is like young rice: transplanted, still it grows.

Proverbs and old sayings about love

Cross the river in a crowd and the crocodile won't eat you.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

Life is a shadow and a mist; it passes quickly by, and is no more.

Proverbs and old sayings about shadow, life

Don't take another mouthful before you have swallowed what is in your mouth.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

Indecision is like the stepchild: if he doesn't wash his hands, he is called dirty; if he does, he is wasting the water.

Proverbs and old sayings about water

An egg does not fight a rock.

Proverbs and old sayings about rocks, fight

Iron does not clang by itself.

Proverbs and old sayings

Disgraced like a man whose own pet bites him.

Proverbs and old sayings about pets, man

Do not scare the birds you are going to shoot.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

Roosters' tail feathers: pretty but always behind.

Proverbs and old sayings

Do not kick away the canoe which helped you to cross the river.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

A canoe does not know who is king. When it turns over, everyone gets wet.

Proverbs and old sayings

The lazy man who goes to borrow a spade says, I hope I will not find one.

Proverbs and old sayings about hope, man

You think you are strong like the corn plant, yet the bean vine is already choking you.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

Do not treat your loved one like a swinging door: you are fond of it but you push it back and forth.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

Anger is a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about anger

Anger is more hurtful than the injury that caused it.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about anger

Debts make the thief.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about thieves

Sick people are like kings.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about people

Only thin dogs become wild.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy