You can't get rice by pounding bran.
You can only be honest if you are well fed.
Worthless people blame their karma.
With fowls, the pedigree; with men, breeding.
Where there is love, there is peace.
When the healthy dog fights with a mad dog, it is the ears of the healthy one that are bitten off.
When the cat gets too old, the mice are not afraid any more.
What is now top of the mast, will be firewood soon.
Too many doctors caused the boy's death.
They call their aunt only when her cucumbers are ripe.
There is no cure for an unknown illness.
The tree is felled.
The talkers aren't strong; the strong don't talk.
The strongest ox is only as strong as the old ox with a broken leg.
The strings of the harp must be not too tight, and not too slack.
The more you know, the luckier you get.
The monkey never complains that he has no comb.
The life of a guest is seven days.
The least boy always carries the biggest fiddle.
The least and weakest man can do some hurt.
The learned are apt to be taciturn.
The hero appears only when the tiger is dead.
The dead know the price of wood.
The blind person is not afraid of ghosts.
The anger of the prudent never shows.
Sugarcane is always sweet people only sometimes so.
Spread the word of a psalm and it becomes a popular song.
Only when a new government comes to power do you learn to appreciate the values of the old one.
Only the sufferers know how their bellies ache.
Only tall things cast shadows.
