July 2009
55 posts
“With a man who has many wives, bad wares will never be sold.”
“Even a crazy dog knows its way home.”
“It is Joy, not Poverty, that reminds us about the severity of Hell.”
“A Bad Woman makes a Wise Man wiser.”
“Ambition does not sleep on the tree.”
“Learning is the last refuge of Failure.”
“The Lion that treads softly fears the earthworm.”
“The Chameleon can change its colour to keep secrets.”
“Man is the Head of the Home, but never its Habits.”
“Good deeds is no license to go to Heaven.”
“The strength of a Rich Man never pleases the Poor.”
“The reward of good work is being busy doing nothing.”
“A man without a smiling face realises the advantage of good health.”
“Being ignorant can be worth more than gold.”
“A hungry visitor must first crack the nut.”
“Choose your love, and then have none to spare.”
“A thief becomes rich not because of what he earns, but because of what he saves.”
“The only cure for Poverty needs no purse.”
“A fault confessed baffles the wise.”
“If nothing else, a poor man has got the right to look at a rich man’s...”
“He who has no enemy was a coward in his youth.”
“No elder ever admits he is really old, until his mother stops worrying about...”
“Avoiding the mud is injustice.”
“Delay of justice does not always last the day.”
“Blind men are always bad enemies.”
“Unrequited love does not know when you are sad.”
“He who is too proud to ask will be too good to receive tattered clothes.”
“A traveller sees more than a climber, considers himself owner of the land, and...”
“If your friend’s bread catches fire, that makes the stranger smile.”
“A beggar can never refuse the food cooked by a soft-spoken wife.”
“The eye that sees has many ways.”
“In the home of a coward, a cat cannot stay in one room.”
“He who destroys himself chews and laughs with care.”
“A man who habitually laughs at others cannot be happy save by the permission of...”
“It is the lazy man who says, The chick that always keeps close to the mother...”
“A traveller is as large as the pot that surpasses the other.”
“The drunkard’s purse never runs dry.”
“The feathers that the eagle plucks off itself with disregard did not annoy him...”
“The monkey says that the man who killed him during the night is easily seen...”
“The most valuable thing in life is older than a grown-up bread.”
“Birds flock together only when the meat is out of reach.”
“Young folk think that the old wants his own throat to be cut.”
“It is easy to swim on the sands of time by sitting down.”
“The love of a young woman is found by many actions and lost by one.”
“There is no day that the young are fools.”
“A mouse with a proud moustache will have the time to lie.”
“He who marries at an old age may long go barefooted.”
“An unmarried woman is often the last throw of the failures.”
“A man who proposes to shake the world may not gain much from his children.”
“A beetle on the palm-wine pot will have himself shaken as well.”