List: proverb
Simple and concrete saying, popularly known and repeated, that expresses a truth based on common sense or experience.
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- a horrible man will find a horrible wife
proverb expression ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- you are only young once, youth doesn't come twice, gather ye rosebuds while ye may
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- all girls eventually awaken to sex, even the seed growing in the shade will burst open
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- even accidentally touching sleeves with a passing stranger is caused by fate
derogatory proverb archaic expression
- merchants from Ise and ลmi do not waste their money (unlike Edoites), robbers from ลmi, beggars from Ise
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- people look friendly when they ask for a loan but not so much when they repay it, when borrowing (the money), the face of the (bodhisattva) Kshitigarbha; when returning it, the face of the (hell king) Yama
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- you can't do something if you don't know how to do it, you can't read a sutra (by heart) if you haven't learned it
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- he who has never toiled, does not know what it is to enjoy repose
proverb rare term expression
- one should do more than what is literally being asked for, when told (to bring) the chisel, (also bring) the mallet
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- the ambition of the lazy does not last