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Love is like a rice plant; transplanted, it can grow elsewhere.

Proverbs and old sayings about love

Love is like young rice: transplanted, still it grows.

Proverbs and old sayings about love

Ants can attack with a grain of rice.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about attack

Love is just like rice -- plant it elsewhere and it grows.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about love

Sorrow is like rice in an attic: you use a little every day and at the end it is all gone.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about sadness, use, end, day

When the curry is tasty, the rice is hard.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan

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

Proverbs and old sayings Malaysian

You can't get rice by pounding bran.

Proverbs and old sayings

Sweet rice is eaten quickly.

Proverbs and old sayings

Sorrow is like rice in the store; if a basketful is removed everyday, it will come to an end at last.

Proverbs and old sayings about sadness, end

A lazy person with a nephwe does not eat dry rice.

Proverbs and old sayings about people

The store of rice in your attic is your enemy -- it makes them who have none very jealous.

Proverbs and old sayings Thai about enemies

Don't trust a hungry man to watch your rice.

Proverbs and old sayings Tibetan about man

Plant rice when the ground is ready; pursue women when you feel passion.

Proverbs and old sayings Tibetan

Sun is for cucumbers, rain for rice.

Proverbs and old sayings Vietnamese about rain, sun

The bigger the pot the more rice will stick to it.

Proverbs and old sayings Zulu

The water in your well can be very hot, but it will never cook your rice.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about water

Don't let an angry man wash dishes; don't let a hungry man guard rice.

Proverbs and old sayings Cambodian about man

A teacher is someone who ploughs with his tongue to fill his little bowl with rice.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about teachers

Better than a banquet somewhere else is a good cup of tea and a bowl of rice at home.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about home, good, good luck