Sepanguish
Posted by ralph
Since Sepang is in Malyasia some of these malyan proverbs can be rightfully labeled SEPANGUISH-LANGUAGE:
A diplomat should be yielding and supple as a liana that can be bent but not broken.
A lost wife can be replaced, but the loss of character spells ruin.
A piece of incense may be as large as the knee, but unless burnt emits no fragrance.
Although it may rain, cast not away the watering pot.
An ox with long horns, even if he does not butt, will be accused of butting.
As a bamboo conduit makes a round jet of water, so taking counsel together rounds men to one mind.
Crime leaves a trail like a water beetle and like a snail it leaves it shine. Like a horse-mango it leaves its reek.
Fear to let fall a drop and you will spill a lot.
Flowers and buds fall , and the old and ripe fall.
He that can see a louse as far away as Chine is unconscious of an elephant on his nose.
However big the whale may be, the tiny harpoon can of him of life.
If you dip your arm into the pickle pot let it be up to the elbow.
It is the fate of the coconut husk to float, for the tone to sink.
Kick away the ladder and one's feet are left dangling.
One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
The betrothed of good is evil, The betrothed of life is death, The betrothed of love is divorce.
The body pays for a slip of the foot, and gold pays for a slip of the tongue.
The cradle is rocked but the baby is pinched.
The turtle lays thousands of eggs without anyone knowing, but when the hen lays an egg, the whole country is informed.
Though a tree grow ever so high, the falling leaves return to the root.
To depend on one's own child is blindness in one eyes; To depend on a stranger, blindness in both eyes.
Trumpet in a herd of elephants, Crow in the company of cocks. Bleat in a flock of goats.
When a dead tree falls, the woodpeckers share in its death.
When the curry is good, the rice is half cooked; When the rice is good, the curry is hald cooked.
Where does the ant die except in sugar.
REHAB IS FOR QUITTERS
A diplomat should be yielding and supple as a liana that can be bent but not broken.
A lost wife can be replaced, but the loss of character spells ruin.
A piece of incense may be as large as the knee, but unless burnt emits no fragrance.
Although it may rain, cast not away the watering pot.
An ox with long horns, even if he does not butt, will be accused of butting.
As a bamboo conduit makes a round jet of water, so taking counsel together rounds men to one mind.
Crime leaves a trail like a water beetle and like a snail it leaves it shine. Like a horse-mango it leaves its reek.
Fear to let fall a drop and you will spill a lot.
Flowers and buds fall , and the old and ripe fall.
He that can see a louse as far away as Chine is unconscious of an elephant on his nose.
However big the whale may be, the tiny harpoon can of him of life.
If you dip your arm into the pickle pot let it be up to the elbow.
It is the fate of the coconut husk to float, for the tone to sink.
Kick away the ladder and one's feet are left dangling.
One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
The betrothed of good is evil, The betrothed of life is death, The betrothed of love is divorce.
The body pays for a slip of the foot, and gold pays for a slip of the tongue.
The cradle is rocked but the baby is pinched.
The turtle lays thousands of eggs without anyone knowing, but when the hen lays an egg, the whole country is informed.
Though a tree grow ever so high, the falling leaves return to the root.
To depend on one's own child is blindness in one eyes; To depend on a stranger, blindness in both eyes.
Trumpet in a herd of elephants, Crow in the company of cocks. Bleat in a flock of goats.
When a dead tree falls, the woodpeckers share in its death.
When the curry is good, the rice is half cooked; When the rice is good, the curry is hald cooked.
Where does the ant die except in sugar.
REHAB IS FOR QUITTERS
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