Before you prepare to improve the world, look around your own house three times.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about world, home, house
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Before preparing to improve the world, first look around your own home three times.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about home, world
When people are no longer afraid of death, there is no use threatening them with it?
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about use, death, people
One monk shoulders water by himself; two can still share the labor among them. When it comes to three, they have to go thirsty.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about water
A hundred bakers, a hundred millers, and a hundred tailors are three hundred thieves.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about thieves
Every little helps to lighten the freight, said the captain, as he threw his wife overboard.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about wife
With one child you may walk; with two you may ride; when you have three, at home you must bide.
Proverbs and old sayings English about home, children
To sing to the deaf, to talk with the dumb, and to dance for the blind are three foolish things.
Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about dance, blind, things
Limerick was, Dublin is, and Cork shall be the finest city of the three.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about city
A thorn, a hound's tooth, a fool's word: these are the three sharpest things.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about word, things
Better one good thing that is, rather than two good things that were, or three good things that might never come to pass.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about things, good, good luck
He who meddles in others people's affairs will be left with two of three parts.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about people
A book whos sale's forbidden all men rush to see, and prohibition turns one reader into three.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man
A book whose sale's forbidden all men rush to see, and prohibition turns one reader into three.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man
To expect what never comes, to lie in bed and not sleep, to serve well and not be advanced, are three things to die of.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about sleep, lie, things
A wild goose may be worth a hundred pieces of gold, but you first have to spend three pieces of gold to buy an arrow.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about commerce
(Don’t try to) cook six liters of food in a pot that only holds three liters.
Proverbs and old sayings about food
The dishonor of the father dishonors his sons and their sons for three generations.
Proverbs and old sayings
Eat well, drink in moderation, and sleep sound, in these three good health abound.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about sleep, drinking, good, good luck
A secret between two is god's secret; a secret between three is known to all.
Proverbs and old sayings Mexican about secret, god
