Browse Dozens of Proverbs
MALAYAN
- "A diplomat should be yielding and supple as a liana that can be bent but not broken. "
- "A lost wife can be replaced, but the loss of character spells ruin."
- "A piece of incense may be as large as the knee, but unless burnt emits no fragrance. "
- "Although it may rain, cast not away the watering pot. "
- "An ox with long horns, even if he does not butt, will be accused of butting. "
- "As a bamboo conduit makes a round jet of water, so taking counsel together rounds men to one mind."
- "Crime leaves a trail like a water beetle and like a snail it leaves it shine. Like a horse-mango it leaves its reek."
- "Fear to let fall a drop and you will spill a lot."
- "Flowers and buds fall , and the old and ripe fall."
- "He that can see a louse as far away as Chine is unconscious of an elephant on his nose."
- "However big the whale may be, the tiny harpoon can of him of life."
- "If you dip your arm into the pickle pot let it be up to the elbow."
- "It is the fate of the coconut husk to float, for the tone to sink."
- "Kick away the ladder and one's feet are left dangling."
- "One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind."
- "The betrothed of good is evil, The betrothed of life is death, The betrothed of love is divorce."
- "The body pays for a slip of the foot, and gold pays for a slip of the tongue."
- "The cradle is rocked but the baby is pinched."
- "The turtle lays thousands of eggs without anyone knowing, but when the hen lays an egg, the whole country is informed."
- "Though a tree grow ever so high, the falling leaves return to the root."
- "To depend on one's own child is blindness in one eyes; To depend on a stranger, blindness in both eyes."
- "Trumpet in a herd of elephants, Crow in the company of cocks. Bleat in a flock of goats."
- "When a dead tree falls, the woodpeckers share in its death."
- "When the curry is good, the rice is half cooked; When the rice is good, the curry is hald cooked."
- "Where does the ant die except in sugar. "
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