Sun is for cucumbers, rain for rice.
—Vietnamese Proverb
Topics: Rain
In hell, people starve because their hands are chained to six-foot-long chopsticks, too long to bring the rice to their mouths. Heaven is the same, only there, people feed each other.
—Vietnamese Proverb
When eating fruit, think of the person who planted the tree.
—Vietnamese Proverb
Topics: Thankfulness
When the father has eaten too much salt in his lifetime, then his son thereafter will have a great thirst.
—Vietnamese Proverb
Topics: Bad Times
Women are like raindrops: some fall on palaces, others on rice fields.
—Vietnamese Proverb
Topics: Rain
If you want to gather a lot of knowledge, act as if you are ignorant.
—Vietnamese Proverb
Topics: Knowledge
Better to die than to live on with a bad reputation.
—Vietnamese Proverb
Topics: Reputation
Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet.
—Vietnamese Proverb
Topics: Brothers
Good wood is better than good paint.
—Vietnamese Proverb
People say that time goes by; time says that the people go by.
—Vietnamese Proverb
Topics: Bad Times
Life is a temporary stop, death is the journey home.
—Vietnamese Proverb
Topics: Home
Nice words are free, so choose ones that please another’s ears.
—Vietnamese Proverb
If you hold high office, the whole village will share your fame.
—Vietnamese Proverb
Topics: Sharing
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