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The more sorrow one encounters, the more joy one can contain.

Proverbs and old sayings Malaysian about joy, sadness

Milk belongs to the cow, but the bull cow gets the publicity.

Proverbs and old sayings Malaysian about advertising

A heavy load should be borne together as well as a light load.

Proverbs and old sayings Malaysian about light

Because of a drop of blue dye, a whole pot of milk is contaminated.

Proverbs and old sayings Malaysian

Though a tree grows so high, the falling leaves return to the root.

Proverbs and old sayings Malaysian

You can't get at the precious sago without first breaking the bark.

Proverbs and old sayings Malaysian

Tigers die and leave their stripes, but humans die leaving their names.

Proverbs and old sayings Malaysian about people

On which soil we stand on, that is where we carry the weight of the sky.

Proverbs and old sayings Malaysian about sky

If there is no reason, why would the tempua bird nest on the low branches?

Proverbs and old sayings Malaysian about reason

An ox with long horns, even if he does not butt, will be accused of butting.

Proverbs and old sayings Malaysian

Just because you are irritated by a mosquito, you burn the mosquito curtain.

Proverbs and old sayings Malaysian

No matter how high the squirrel jumps, it will eventually fall onto the ground.

Proverbs and old sayings Malaysian about fall

Gold rain drops on a foreign country, wherelse rain of stones drops on our country, but our country is better.

Proverbs and old sayings Malaysian about country, rain

As long as you happen to put your hand in a container full of pickles, might as well dip your whole arm in the container.

Proverbs and old sayings Malaysian

If you want something, you'll do a thousand things to obtain it. But if you don't want something, you'll give a thousand excuses to refrain from it.

Proverbs and old sayings Malaysian about things

Don't use an axe to embroider.

Proverbs and old sayings Malaysian about use

Feasting is the physician's harvest.

Proverbs and old sayings Malaysian

If you plant grass, you won't get rice.

Proverbs and old sayings Malaysian

Fear to let fall a drop and you will spill a lot.

Proverbs and old sayings Malaysian about fear, fall

Fear to let spill a drop and you will spill a lot.

Proverbs and old sayings Malaysian about fear