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Rice Proverbs - page 2
A teacher is someone who ploughs with his tongue to fill his little bowl with rice.
Chinese Proverb
If you plant grass, you won't get rice.
Malay Proverb
A warm fire is better than delicious cooked rice.
Afghan Proverb
Fire, fire's better than rice.
Afghan Proverb
The store of rice in your attic is your enemy -- it makes them who have none very jealous.
Thai Proverb
Without the forest, there will be no more water, without water, there will be no more rice.
Madagascan Proverb
Ya bringing ya dumplings to carry way ma rice.
Bajan Proverb
Laugh at the rice and you will weep for the lentil.
Creole Proverb
A lazy person with a nephwe does not eat dry rice.
Swahili Proverb
Better than a banquet somewhere else is a good cup of tea and a bowl of rice at home.
Japanese Proverb
Cooked rice grains sticking to the soles of the feet.
Japanese Proverb
Even though you tread slowly over your rice field it will become muddy.
Japanese Proverb
If you have only two pennies left in the world, with the first penny, you should buy rice to feed your family. With the second penny, say the wise Japanese, you should buy a lily. The Japanese understand the importance of dreaming...
Japanese Proverb
Luck is like having a rice dumpling fly into your mouth.
Japanese Proverb
A bean-jam rice cake into the open mouth.
Japanese Proverb
For rice cakes, go to the rice-cake maker.
Japanese Proverb
To draw water into one's own rice field.
Japanese Proverb
Without rice, even the cleverest housewife cannot cook.
Chinese Proverb
If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.
Chinese Proverb
If you are planning for one year, grow rice. If you are planning for 20 years grow trees. If you are planning for centuries, grow men.
Chinese Proverb
You can live with tea and cold rice but not with cold words.
Chinese Proverb
It's better for people to wait for rice, than rice for people.
Chinese Proverb
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