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Without rice, even the cleverest housewife cannot cook.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

You can live with tea and cold rice but not with cold words.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

He that has no money might as well be buried in a rice tub with his mouth sewn up.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about money

If you are planning for one year, grow rice. If you are planning for 20 years grow trees. If you are planning for centuries, grow men.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about man

Laugh at the rice and you will weep for the lentil.

Proverbs and old sayings

Moonlight and boiled rice.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

He draws water over his own rice field.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about water

To draw water into one's own rice field.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about water

I'll give away rice fields and footpaths.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

A bean-jam rice cake into the open mouth.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

You can't eat the rice cake in the picture.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

A pig used to dirt turns its nose up at rice.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

A pig used to dirt turns up his nose at rice.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

Growing rice gives you more than poetry will.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about poetry

Cooked rice grains sticking to the soles of the feet.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

Luck is like having a rice dumpling fly into your mouth.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about bad luck, good luck

Apple blossoms are beautiful, but rice dumplings are better.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

Even though you tread slowly over your rice field it will become muddy.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

Cold tea and cold rice are tolerable; cold looks and cold words aren't.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

Cold tea and cold rice are bearable, but cold looks and cold words are not.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese