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Comparative Proverbs, Old Adages and Sayings: Thai & English
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1. [derived from a Thai film with the same name] The dull die fast; the smart die slow.

2. Never do things by halves.

3. Prevention is better than cure.

4. Birds of a feather flock together.

5. Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the devil.

6. Play second fiddle. To have to be satisfied with the crumbs from a rich man's table.

7. Keep something for a rainy day.

8. Conscience does make cowards of us all.

9. Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves.

10. We only appreciate the worth of salt when the soup is tasteless. You never miss the water till the well runs dry. The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it, or, as Madonna sang in her song One More Chance: "You don't know what you've got till it's gone."

11. Fine feathers make fine birds. The tailor makes the man.

12. Long absent, soon forgotten. Out of sight, out of mind.

13. As diligent as an ant.

14. A bad penny always comes back.

15. Call a spade a spade.

16. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

17. All are not thieves that dogs bark at. Appearances are deceptive. Never judge by appearances.

18. All that glitters is not gold. Appearances are deceptive.

19. Burn your house to frighten away the mice.

20. A new broom sweeps clean.

21. Who that keeps the company with the wolf will learn to howl.

22. When in Rome do as the Romans do.

23.To go into one ear and come out of the other.

24. Two heads are better than one.

25. Keep not ill men company lest you increase the number.

26. Hide you light under a bushel.

27.Where there's a will, there's a way.

28. Health is better than wealth.

29. Love is blind.

30. A word and a stone let go cannot be called back.

31. Finder's keeper; loser's weeper.

32. To beat around the bush.

33. To make both ends meet.

34.Haste makes waste. Rome was not built in a day.

35. What is done by night appears by day.

36. A genuine is born, not made.

37. The leopard cannot change his spots.

38 Like father, like son.

39.Like mother, like daughter (like grandmother, too!!).

40. Look before you leap (or the everyday version that goes: "Look where you are going[, f*@#ing moron!!!])"

41. Look at the direction of the winds. Look before you leap.

42. = Give him an inch, and he'll take a yard.

43. You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.

44. God helps those who help themselves.

45 All's well that ends well.

46. It takes two to make a quarrel.

47 A kiss after a kick!

48 Talking to a brick wall.

49 .Chalk and cheese.

50 .An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.

51. Gluttony kills more than the sword.

52. To cut off one's nose to spite one's face.

53. Beat the dog before the lion.

54. Strike while the iron is hot.

55. Drown not thyself to save a drowning man.

56 Moderation in all things.

57 To work one's tail off.

58 Evil be to him who evil thinks.

59 He that sows good seed shall reap good corn.

60 As you make your bed, so you must lie on it. As ye sow, so ye shall reap.

61. Forgive and forget. Let bygones be bygones. To err is human; to forgive, divine.

62. To take the bread out of one's mouth.