If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred
days of sorrow.
Chinese Proverb
The beginning and the end
reach out their hands to each other.
Chinese Proverb
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
Chinese Proverb
After three days without reading, talk becomes flavorless.
Chinese Proverb
Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck, leads the flock to fly
and follow.
Chinese Proverb
The father in praising his son extols himself.
Chinese Proverb
Better be kind at home than burn incense in a far place.
Chinese Proverb
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
Chinese Proverb
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not
ask a question remains a fool forever.
Chinese Proverb
Sour, sweet, bitter, pungent, all must be tasted.
Chinese Proverb
Who is narrow of vision cannot be big of heart.
Chinese Proverb
The water that bears the ship is the same that engulfs it.
Chinese Proverb
Many things are lost for want of asking.
English Proverb
The shortest answer is doing.
English Proverb
Too far east is west.
English Proverb
God's a good man.
English Proverb
He who hunts two hares leaves one and loses the other.
Japanese Proverb
The path of duty lies in what is near at hand, but men seek for it in
what is remote.
Japanese Proverb
There is no eel so small but it hopes to become a whale.
German Proverb
In America an hour is forty minutes.
German Proverb
With nice appearance people want to be deceived.
German Proverb
"But" is a fence over which few leap.
German Proverb
A bad cause requires many words.
German Proverb
To change and to improve are two different things.
German Proverb
Great things are done more through courage than through wisdom.
German Proverb
He who likes cherries soon learns to climb.
German Proverb
A dream grants what one covets when awake.
German Proverb
Envy eats nothing but its own heart.
German Proverb
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
German Proverb
When God gives hard bread He gives sharp teeth.
German Proverb
Nothing looks so like a man of sense as a fool who holds his tongue.
German Proverb
Luck sometimes visits a fool, but never sits down with him.
German Proverb
What grows makes no noise.
German Proverb
Charity looks at the need and not at the cause.
German Proverb
Charity looks at the need and not at the cause.
German Proverb
They will be hushed by a good deed who laugh at a wise speech.
French Proverb
It is by believing in roses that one brings them to bloom.
French Proverb
No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give.
French Proverb
Life is an onion which one peels crying.
French Proverb
If you would understand men, study women.
French Proverb
Only he who does nothing makes a mistake.
French Proverb
To be loved is the best way of being useful.
French Proverb
If you do not drive in sleet to the woods, singing, you have to drive
crying.
Czech Proverb
The way one eats is the way one works.
Czech Proverb
He who cannot cut the bread evenly cannot get on well with people.
Czech Proverb
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Czech Proverb
Teeth placed before the tongue give good advice.
Italian Proverb
Years and sins are always more than owned.
Italian Proverb
It is a good answer which knows when to stop.
Italian Proverb
For a web begun God sends thread.
Italian Proverb
He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much master of the world
as he who is ready to die.
Italian Proverb
The absent are always at fault.
Other people's eggs have two yolks.
Bulgarian Proverb
From the promise to the deed is a day's journey.
Bulgarian Proverb
He who is outside the door has already a good part of his journey
behind him.
Dutch Proverb
Men can bear all things except good days.
Dutch Proverb
One sprinkles the most sugar where the tart is burnt.
Dutch Proverb
The town is new every day.
Estonian Proverb
Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.
Estonian Proverb
If you go only once around the room, you are wiser than he who sits
still.
Estonian Proverb
He who speaks the truth must have one foot in the stirrup.
Armenian Proverb
It is not good to be alone, even in Paradise.
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อย่าตีตนไปก่อนไข้
Ya ti ton pai kon khai
Don't cross the bridge till you get to
it.
{Don't beat yourself before the
fever (arrives).}
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วัวหายล้อมคอก
Wua hai lom
khok
It is too late to shut the stable-door.
(To build the cattle-pen after
the cow is lost.)
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ล้วงคองูเห่า
Luang kho
ngu hao
To put one's head in the lion's mouth.
{To put one's hand in the
cobra's throat.}
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น้ำขึ้นให้รีบตัก
Nam khun hai rip tak
Make hay while the sun shines.
(When the water rises, hurry to
collect some.)
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เอาหูไปนา
เอาตาไปไร่
Ao hu pai
na Ao ta pai rai
To turn a blind eye.
(To take the ears to the paddy
field; To take the eyes to the plantation.)
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ช้างตายทั้งตัวเอาใบบัวมาปิด
Chang tai
thang tua ao bai bua ma pit
What is done by night appears by day.
(To cover one whole dead
elephant with a lotus leaf.)
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ไม้ล้มข้ามได้
คนล้มอย่าข้าม
Mai lom
kham dai Khon lom ya kham
Don't hit a man when he is down.
(You may step over a fallen
tree; Don't step over a fallen man.)
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อย่าสาวใส้ให้กากิน
Ya sao sai
hai ka kin
To wash dirty linen in public.
(Don't pull out your intestines
to feed the crow.)
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ไฟในอย่านำออก
ไฟนอกอย่านำเข้า
Fai nai ya
nam ok Fai nok ya nam khao
Don't take out the fire inside; Don't
bring in the fire outside.
(Don't take out or bring in the
bad things to family.)
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รำไม่ดี
โทษปี่โทษกลอง
Ram mai di,
thot pi thot klong
A bad workman blames his tools.
(When you don't dance well, you
blame it on the flute and the drum.)
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ชักหน้าไม่ถึงหลัง
Chak na
mai thung lang
To make both ends meet.
(Pulling the front but failing
to reach the back.)
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พูดไปสองไพเบี้ย นิ่งเสียตำลึงทอง
Phut pai
song phai bia Ning sia tamlung thong
Speech is silvern, silence is golden.
{If you talk, (you'll get) a
small sum of money; If you remain silent, (you'll get )a lot of
gold.}
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ปิดทองหลังพระ
Pit thong lang phra
To do good by stealth.
(To apply gold leaf to the back
of a Buddha image.)
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จับได้คาหนังคาเขา
Chap dai
kha nang kha khao
To catch somebody red-handed.
(To catch somebody with the hide
and horns.)
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ดูตาม้า้่ตาเรือ
Du tama
tarua
Look before you leap.
(Look at the moves of the horse
and the ship.)
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สวยเเต่รูปจูบไม่หอม
Suai tae
rup chup mai hom
Beauty without grace is a violet
without smell.
(If a woman has only a beautiful
body, you won't find that she smells sweet when you kiss her.)
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ไม้เเก่ดัดยาก
Mai Kae
dat yak
It is hard to teach an old dog tricks.
(It is hard to bend an old
tree.)
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เเกงจืดจึงรู้คุณเกลือ
Kaeng chut
chung ru khun klua
The worth of a thing is best known by
the want of it.
(We only appreciate the worth of
salt when the soup is tasteless.)
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อย่าผลัดวันประกันพรุ่ง
Ya phat
wan prakan phrung
Never put off till tomorrow what can be done today.
(Don't put off today by pledging
tomorrow.)
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ทุบหม้อข้าว
Thup mo
khao
To take the bread out of one's mouth.
(To smash the rice pot.)
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อดเปรี้ยวไว้กินหวาน
Ot prieo
wai kin wan
He that eats the hard shall eat the
ripe.
(Forego the sour for the sweet.)
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มีสลึงพึงประจบให้ครบบาท
Mi salung
phung prachop hai khrop bath
Take care of the pence, and the pounds
will take care of themselves.
(If you have a quarter, save
until you make it up to a baht.)
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เอากุ้งฝอยไปตกปลากะพง
Ao kung
foi pai tok pla kaphong
Venture a small fish to catch a great
one.
(To use shrimps to bait a
perch.)
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เหยียบเรือสองเเคม
Yiap rua
song khaem
To run with the hare and hunt with the
hounds.
(To step on both gunwales of a
boat.)
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น้ำเชี้ยวอย่าขวางเรือ
Nam chieo
ya khwang rua
It is ill (evil) striving against the
stream.
(When the current is strong,
don't steer your boat across it.)
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หนีเสือปะจระเข้
Ni sua pa
chorake
Out of the frying-pan into the fire.
(Escape from the tiger; meet the
crocodile.)
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เสน่ห์ปลายจวัก
ผัวรักจนตาย
Sa-ne plai chawak/ Phua rak chon tai
The way to a man's (an Englishman's)
heart is through his stomach.
(The charm at the tip of the
ladle; Husband will love you till death.)
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ไม้ใกล้ฝั่ง
Mai klai fang
To have one foot in the grave.
(A tree near the bank.)
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ดูทิศทางลม
Du thit
thang lom
Look at the direction of the winds.
(Look at the moves of the horse,
the ship, and the winds.)
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