Proverb
SoukSanh
I'm sure some of these proverbs fit into your posts... Enjoy!
SoukSanh
- A bad penny always turns up.
- A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
- A chain is no stronger than its weakest link.
- A fool and his money are soon parted.
- A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- A man is known by his friends.
- A man is known by the company he keeps.
- A man's home is his castle.
- A rolling stone gathers no moss.
- A woman's work is never done.
- Actions speak louder than words.
- All good things must come to an end.
- All that glitters is not gold.
- All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
- All's well that ends well.
- An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
- Appearances are deceptive.
- As soon as man is born he begins to die.
- As you make your bed, so must you lie in it.
- As you sow, so shall you reap.
- Ask no questions and hear no lies.
- Barking dogs seldom bite.
- Beauty is only skin-deep.
- Beggars can't be choosers.
- Better die with honor than live in shame.
- Better late than never.
- Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know.
- Better to be alone than in bad company.
- Birds of a feather flock together.
- Blood is thicker than water.
- Boys will be boys.
- Business is business.
- Dead men have no friends.
- Dead men tell no tales.
- Death is the great leveler.
- Do as I say,and not as I do.
- Do not wear out your welcome.
- Do unto others as you would like them to do unto you.
- Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.
- Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.
- Don't go near the water until you learn how to swim.
- Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
- Don't wash your dirty linen in public.
- Early to bed and early to rise,makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
- Every bird loves to hear himself sing.
- Every dog has his day.
- Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard.
- Every man has his faults.
- Every man has his price.
- Every man is his own worst enemy.
- Experience is the mother of wisdom.
- Failure teaches success.
- Faith will move mountains
- Familiarity breeds contempt.
- Fear of death is worse than death itself.
- First things first.
- First think, and then speak.
- Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
- Forgive and forget.
- Give him an inch and he'll take a yard.
- Good fences make good neighbors.
- He is the best general who makes the fewest mistakes.
- He that is master of himself, will soon be master of others.
- He that knows nothing, doubts nothing.
- He that plants a tree,plants for posterity.
- He who hesitates is lost.
- Honesty is the best policy.
- If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well.
- Ignorance is bliss.
- It is best to be on the safe side.
- It never rains, but it pours.
- It takes two to tango.
- Jack of all trades,master of none.
- Keep your mouth shut and your ears open.
- Laughter is the best medicine.
- Let bygones be bygones.
- Let sleeping dogs lie.
- Let the buyer beware.
- Let the dead bury their dead.
- Life is just a bowl of cherries.
- Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
- Like father,like son.
- Live and learn.
- Look after number one.
- Look on the bright side.
- Love conquers all.
- Love is blind.
- Love makes the world go round.
- Love will find a way.
- Man cannot live by bread alone.
- Many hands make light work.
- Marriages are made in heaven.
- Might is right.
- Money is the root of all evil.
- Money isn't everything.
- Never judge from appearances.
- Never mix your liquor.
- Never say die.
- Never too late to learn.
- No man can serve two masters.
- No man is indispensable.
- No news is good news.
- No pain,no gain.
- Nothing is certain but death and taxes.
- Nothing succeeds like success.
- Nothing ventured,nothing gained.
- Old habits die hard.
- One good turn deserves another.
- One man's loss is another man's gain.
- Out of sight, out of mind.
- Patience is a virtue.
- Practice what you preach.
- Rain, rain, go away, come again another day.
- Rats desert a sinking ship.
- Revenge is sweet.
- Robbing Peter to pay Paul.
- Scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.
- Seeing is believing.
- Silence is golden.
- Speak when you are spoken to.
- Still waters run deep.
- Sweet things are bad for the teeth.
- The best go first.
- The best things in life are free.
- The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
- The burnt child dreads the fire.
- The early bird catches the worm.
- The female of the species is more deadly than the male.
- The first step is the hardest.
- The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
- The more one knows, the less one believes.
- The pot calls the kettle black.
- The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
- There is a time and a place for everything.
- There is more than one way to skin a cat.
- There's a black sheep in every flock.
- There's no fool like an old fool.
- There's no place like home.
- There's one law for the rich,and another for the poor.
- Things are not always what they seem.
- Time cures all things.
- Time is money.
- To err is human.
- Tomorrow is another day.
- Too many cooks spoil the broth.
- True love never grows old.
- Two heads are better than one.
- Two wrongs do not make a right.
- United we stand, divided we fall.
- Variety is the spice of life.
- Virtue is its own reward.
- Walls have ears
- What you don't know can't hurt you.
- When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
- When in doubt, do nothing.
- When the cat's away, the mice will play.
- Where there is no trust there is no love.
- Where there's a will there's a way.
- You can't please everyone.
- You can't tell a book by its cover.
- You can't win them all.
- You cannot have it both ways.
- You don't get something for nothing.
- You win some, you lose some.
casalao
casalao
MARRIAGE IS...
a.. Marriage is very much like a violin: after the sweet music is over,
the strings are attached.
b.. Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution
for the blind.
c.. Marriage is an instituion in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree
and the woman gets her Masters.
d.. Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two
under the man's eye.
e.. Marriage requires a man to prepare 4 types of "RINGS":
- The Engagement Ring
- The Wedding Ring
- The Suffe-ring
- The Endu-ring
f.. Married life is full of excitement and frustration:
- In the first year of marriage, the man speaks and the woman listens.
- In the second year, the woman speaks and the man listens.
- In the third year, they both speak and the neighbors listen.
g.. It is true that love is blind, but marriage is definitely an
eye-opener.
h.. Getting married is very much like going to the restaurant with
friends. You order what you want. When you see what the other fellow has,
you wish you that you could change your order!
i.. It's true that all men are born free and equal, but some of them get
MARRIED!
j.. There was this man who muttered a few words in the church and found
himself married. A year later he muttered something in his sleep and found
himself divorced.
k.. A happy marriage is a matter of giving and taking; the husband gives
and the wife takes.
l.. Son: "How much does it cost to get married, Dad?"
Father: "I don't know son, I'm still paying for it."
Son: "Dad I heard that in ancient China, a man doesn't know his wife until
he marries."
Father: "That happens everywhere, Son, everywhere."
m.. There was man who said, "I never knew what happiness was until I got
married... and then it was too late!"
n.. Love is one long, sweet dream, and marriage is the alarm clock.
o.. They say when a man holds a woman's hand before marriage, it is love:
after marriage, it is self-defense.
p.. When a newly married man looks happy, we know why. But when a ten-year
married man looks happy, we wonder why.
q.. There was this lover who said that he would go through hell for her.
They got married, and now he is going through HELL!
casalao
Her Lao
hard, tears continuously burst out of my eyes!
So, you married men are suggetin' that we blunderers who've never held a
woman's hand have, by whatever default, stumbled upon enlightenment? Hehehe
(Hey, didn't Buddha wish he was never married, too?, and who amongst us mortals
who's put more mileage into his brain machine than Buddha, eh?)
Hawj Lauj
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casalao
if you think that was one was funny then read this one.
casalao
TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE RAMADON
'Twas the night before Ramadon
And all through the cave
Not a creature was stirring,
It felt like a grave.
The turbans were hung
By the fire pit with care,
In hopes the Air Force
Would soon not be there.
The soldiers were restless
Without any beds,
While visions of airstrikes
Flashed in their heads.
Osama in his burka,
And I in my goatskin cap
Had just settled down
For a cold barren winter's nap.
When out on the ledge
There rose such a clatter,
I grabbed my turban
To see what was the matter.
Away from the racket
I ran like a girl,
Tripped over a goat,
Into a ball I did curl.
The moon shone down
On the new fallen snow,
And lit up the valley
With an ominous glow.
When what to my one
good eye should appear,
But a dozen apaches
And tanks in the rear.
And their leader so fearless
As troops he did push
I knew in an instant,
This must be George Bush.
More rapid than eagles
His forces they came,
And they whistled and shouted
And called out our names.
Now Omar, Osama,
Mohammed Abdul
We come for you now,
we've taken Kabul.
To the top of the cliffs,
To the back of the caves,
When you chose this war
You dug your own graves.
As the dry leaves that
Before the assault choppers fly,
When they meet with an obstacle,
Light up the sky.
With full magazines and flame throwers too,
And then in a twinkling I heard with a thud
The explosion of tomahawks,
Not one was a dud.
And I chambered my rifle,
Was turning around.
Osama was there
Disguised in a gown.
He was dressed all in drag,
From his head to his toes.
And he said he would flee
As I held off his foes.
A bundle of money
He'd stuffed in his pack,
He said "I'm going to Baghdad,
And I'm not looking back."
His eyes were all glassy
He trembled with fear.
The American bombs,
They rang in his ears.
He saddled his goat
Then turned fast and fled,
When a marine Corp. sniper
Got him in the head.
I watched with cold fear
As his body did slump,
The goat threw him off,
He fell in the slump.
And so there I stood
My plans all destroyed,
About to suffer a fate
I could not avoid.
I dropped to my knees
And asked Allah for help.
His voice boomed in my ears
"You ignorant whelp!"
I gave you the Bible,
The Torah, the Koran,
But you were too ignorant
To understand.
I told you to honor
Your neighbors and wives,
Not to enslave them
Or degrade their lives.
You invoke my name
To sanction your deeds,
But you're the last thing
That this world needs.
And so I'll send you
And Bin Laden to hell.
The last words I heard
As the bombs fell
Were from George Bush himself
As he mounted the wall:
"One nation under God
With liberty and justice for all."
Her Lao
I'm'a peaceful man, almost pacifist,,, and I don't enjoy the ridiculing of
killing, whether we (or whoever) think it is the "right" thing to do.
I rather laugh at men's and women's chemical attraction and repulsion, than at
(or with) their competition to show -- in vicious and generational cycles, with
silly superstitious religions as replenishing fuel -- each other how tough,
mean, vicious, benevolent, ad nauseam, they can be to each other.
But, again, I have to say those "proverbs" about the marriage institution were
great!
Brushoff2
>From: "Her Lao" hawj...@hotmail.com
>Date: 1/3/02 8:10 PM Central Standard Time
>Message-id: <2d3789256d4b80075ea...@mygate.mailgate.org>
A professor of mathematics sent a fax to his wife. It read:
"Dear Wife: You must realize that you are 54 years old, and I have
certain needs which you are no longer able to satisfy. I am otherwise
happy with you as wife, and I sincerely hope you will not be hurt or
offended to learn that by the time you receive this letter, I will be at
the Grand Hotel with my 18-year-old teaching assistant. I'll be home
before midnight. -- Your Husband"
When he arrived at the hotel, there was a faxed letter waiting for him
that read as follows:
"Dear Husband: You, too, are 54 years old, and by the time you receive
this letter, I will be at the Breakwater Hotel with the 18-year-old pool boy.
Being the brilliant mathematician that you are, you can easily
appreciate the fact that 18 goes into 54 a lot more times than 54 goes
into 18. Don't wait up."
Tom Lee
soc.culture.afganistan or teliban.
Can you write one for the LPDR too?
Tom
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