If there is some one at home, one word is sufficient. A word to the wise is sufficient.

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

It’s easy to do what one’s own self wills.

He that complies against his will, is of his own opinion still..

[ If you keep your hand open God will provide, if you close it he will not. ]

The hand that gives, gathers.

* The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in through the window

[ If one man becomes water what area can he cover,, if he alone turns into fire what can he burn anyway?]

Two hands are better than one.

* Four eyes see better than two.

* A monk cannot shave his own head (Korean proverb).

[ This bright lamp is of that fetid oil. ]

The best wine comes from an old vessel.

In a hope to clean mucus of one’s eyes, makes blind one’s eyes. He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow. (German Proverb)

He wants a cow’s egg. You can’t get blood out of stone. Nothing comes out of nothing.

[ No one is perfect in himself ]

No one is rich enough to do without his neighbour.

No man is an island.

[ There is no crow without a scar. ]

No land without stones, or meat without bones.

There are spots even in the sun.

[ There is no rose without a thorn. ]

There is no rose without a thorn.

Every light has its shadow.

[ What has come

freely shall go freely. ] Easy come, easy go.

[ When one Baja (wife’s sister’s husband) sees another Baja he is happy, when the donkey sees dirt he is happy.]

Birds of a feather flock together.

Like attracts like.

[ The infant has his place and the Kocha (a kind of food) has its place. ]

Every man has his price.

[ The thing that is brought by the wind, is taken away by the wind. ]

Come with the wind, go with water.

Easy come, easy go.

[ The wind blew and the fly sucked. ]

Soon gotten, soon spent.

[ A tilted load won’t reach its destination. ]

Honesty is the best policy.

[ The son of others cannot become one’s own. ]

Blood is thicker than water.

[ Prosperity is on the other side of adversity.]

He that would catch fish must venture his bait.

[ People with bad luck experience at themselves, while lucky people at others. ]

Wise men learn from other men’s harm, fools by their own.

[ When you eat badly you shall die badly ]

Whatsoever is the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.