Hi All,
All listing proverbs are Vietnamese proverbs, so they should have Vietnamese expressions respectively.
http://www.inspirationalquotes4u.com...rbs/index.html
I’m just looking for those not appearing in the book “Tuyển Tập Thành Ngữ Tục Ngữ Ca Dao Việt-Anh Thông Dụng”.
@ vannessa:
Thank you for your contribution. Hope to receive many more proverbs, not in the above book, from you.
Up till now we’ve already had:
1. All cats are gray in the dark.
Tắt đèn nhà ngói cũng như nhà tranh.
2. Never forget benefits done you, regardless how small.
Ơn ai một chút chớ quên
3. One often gets what one disdains.
Ghét của nào trời trao của ấy.
4. Venture all; see what fate brings.
đánh liều, nhắm mắt đưa chân để xem con tạo xoay vần ra sao/ xem đời đi đến đâu
5. When the tree falls, any child can climb it.
Thất cơ lỡ vận/giậu đổ bìm leo
6. There is one fish in the pond, and ten anglers on the bank.
mật ít mà ruồi nhiều
7. The higher you climb, the heavier you fall.
Trèo cao té nặng.
Thank you for your contribution! Welcome any suggestion for these suspect ones:
8. People live with their own idiosyncrasies and die of their own illnesses.
Há miệng mắc quai?
9. If you want to gather a lot of knowledge, act as if you are ignorant.
Không biết dựa cột mà nghe?
10. What go around come around.
Gieo gió gặt bảo ? or Việc gì đến sẽ đến ?
And these new:
11. Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet.
12. You eat slowly, that is good for stomach; you plough deeply, that is good for fields.
13. Judge not, that ye be not judged.
14. The rich worry over their money, the poor over their bread.