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Don't suspect your employee. If one is suspicious, don't employ him.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

He who can predict winning numbers should not set off fire crackers.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about numbers, fire, fire brigade

Scholars are invaluable to a nation as the best course to a banquet.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about nation

If a man becomes powerful even his chicken and his dog go to heaven.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about man

When a finger is pointing at the moon, the fool looks at the finger.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about moon

Do not dress in clothes made of leaves when going to put out a fire.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about clothes, fire, fire brigade

If you never go up a hill, you will never know what a plain is like.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

Unplowed fields make hollow bellies; unread books make hollow minds.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about books

If the pedestal is beautiful the statue must be even more beautiful.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

The miser does not own the gold, it is the gold that owns the miser.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

A lame cat is better than a swift horse when rats infest the palace.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Flowers leave some of their fragrance in the hand that bestows them.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about flowers

It's not that the well is too deep, but rather the rope is too short.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

The tongue that concedes will not wear out; obstinate teeth fall out.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about fall

The jewel of the air is the sun; the jewel of the house is the child.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about air, sun, children, home, house

It is difficult to repay the gifts you get at a wedding or a funeral.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about marriage, gifts, contentment

A one hundred yard high tower still has its foundation on the ground.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about garden

Though talking face to face, their hearts are a thousand miles apart.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about talking, face

While wrangling over a quarter of pig, you can lose a flock of sheep.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

It is easier to get a chicken back in the egg than to undo a slander.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese