Zomi’te Paunak 123 Zolai leh Manglai tawh
1. Ahang bei leh ahang piang.
- Water, fire and soldiers quickly make room.
- A good Jacek makes a good Jill.
- Youngmen may die, old men must.
2. Ahing a van kai om lo.
- There is no one going to heaven in a sedan.
3. Asi masa puan tuam tang.
- The early bird catches the worm.
4. Azu ava in zong bu nei.
- Foxes have holes and birds have nets.
5. Azu ava in zong nek(an) zong.
- Anything for a quiet life.
- Everyman to his for his trade.
6. Aisa a nu phei pai, a no zong phei pai.
- As the old crock crows, the young ones learn.
7. Aisa banga guh pua nung.
- As lean as a rake.
8. Aisa-kua han, tapkual han.
- A cock is bold on his own dunghill.
- A don is a lion at home.
- A bully is always a coward.
9. Aisa kop bang.
- Let’s go hand in hand, not one before another. (Shakespkare)
- The family is more sacred than the state. (Pope Pius XI)
10. Aisa lo-ngek-a zol bang.
- A good example is the best sermon.
11. Aimit deh bang.
- As calm as a clock.
- As quiet as a mouse.
- As dead as a mutton.
12. Ak banga muhtawm ne.
- A bargain is a bargaih.
- Easy come, easy go.
13. Akgeh puksi ding bang.
- As melancholy as a sick monkey.
- As sick as a dog.
14. Akgeh zawngkhal bang.
- As poor as a churchmouse.
- As poor as job.
15. Ak gilgal bang.
- Losers are always in the wrong.
- Idleness is the roof of evil.
16. Ak gul mu bang.
- It is good to be ware by other men’s harms.
- Evil to him that evil thinks.
17. Ak khaguh-a sai man.
- If there’s a way, there is a way.
- Necessity is the mother of invention.
18. Ak ihmu bang.
- Ever sick of the slothful guise,
- loth to bed and loth to rise
19. Ak kiho (kihuau) bang.
- Were ther no hearers, there would be no backbiters.
- What the heart thinks, the tongues speak.
20. Aklui khuang tah ci-a akpi khuang.
- A fool may give a wise man counsel.
- All the truths are not to be told.
21. Akno si zong paupal bang. (paubang om)
- Better be ill spoken of by one before one.
22. Akno tuikia bang.
- It is hard to be wretches, but worse to be known so.
23. Ak-p tuakkhia sangak tuak.
- It is a silly goose that comes to the fox’s sermon.
- Ill comes in ells and goes out by inches.
24. Akpi to sel bang.
- As proud as a peacock.
25. Akpi nawi hawm bang.
- Who gives to all, denies all.
- Be must before you are generous.
26. Akpi hangsan bang.
- A storm in a teacup.
27. Akpi lei phiat bang.
- Scatter with one hand, gather with two.
- Wilful waste makes woeful want.
28. Akpi leiphiat zong nuamtuam.
- Better five a shilling than lend half a crown.
29. Akta duhgawh kilawh khup.
- All covet, all loose.
- He is not poor that hath little, but he that desireth much.
30. Akta mangkuan ki tutu.
- As sore fight wrens as cranes.
- Pride comes before a fall.
31. Akpi tui lai suam leh sila suam.
- To kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
32. Aktui sung-a vom ding leh akang ding kithei lo.
- There is many a fair thing found false.
- There is luck in old numbers.
33. Aktawphun bang.
- Gossiping and lying go together.
34. Ak taang tawm bang.
- In for penny, in for a pound.
35. Akpi khuang in khua vak lo.
- A whistling woman and a crowing hen are neither fit for God nor man.
36. Akhau en li aitang en.
- The bait hides the hook.
- Have an eye to the main chance.
37. Asi ming sisi, mincim mong cimcim.
- Misfortune never comes singly.
38. An phul cinlah meibuak mit.
- Conceited goods are quickly spent.
- Clergymen’s sons always turn out badly.
39. An nene puksi om lo.
- A growing wouth has a wolf in his belly.
- Children and chicken must be always picking.
- The table robs more than the thief.
40. Ankhing suah kik sadiak.
- Soon hot, soon cold.
- Wood half-hurnt is easily kindled.
- Cold pudding settles love.
41. Baaibek zingtho bang.
- As neat as a new pin.
- He that riseth first is first dressed.
42. Baak tawh kibang.
- Be a friend to thyself and others will befriend thee.
- As changeable as the bats.
- He has a great need of a fool that plays the fool himself.
43. Baak vaat bang.
- A short life and a merry one.
- Small rains lays great dust.
44. Baal leh numei in lim hun nei.
- A wife brings two good days; her wedding day and death day.
- Beauty is the first present nature gives to women, and the first it takes away.
- Beauty is but skin deep.
45. Baalteh tunga tui tak bang.
- Like water off a duck’s back.
- As slippery as an eel.
46. Baangkua kaan zo gatang thawl.
- A fair bride is soon buskit (dressed).
- A fair bonny bride is soon dressed.
47. Bawmta gal suak.
- Too much taking heed is loss.
- Friends are like fiddle-strings, they must not be screwed too fight..
48. Bawmsia leh patmu (Putekpi leh numeino kiteng kituak lo).
- He that doth what he will doth not what he ought.
49. Bawng (Lawi) nuak bang.
- As stubborn as a mule.
50. Beelgong heek leh thei vatuk. (Beelgong heek a guan zukhum veve, vasa i tuk bang thei khum veve).
- A lisping lass is good to kiss.
51. Beelto leh khuaisak (hampha).
- He is a good man whom fortune makes better.
- A little house well-filled, a little land well-tilled, and a little wife well-willed.
52. Beeltaw heng paih ngeina.
- Circumstance alter cases.
- Every sin brings its punishment with it.
53. Beli thok nawn gah zaw thei. (Zikik’tate daupai thei zaw)
- Widows’children usually turn out well.
54. Biangvai tung bang (Vai kidawn gamlum keei).
- As merry as crickets as merry as grigs.
- It it merry when gossip meets.
55. Boih in ka meii tu’n teh tong ning ci, a meii tongh semsem.
- Everyman is the architect of his own fortune.
- He that desires honour is not worthy of honour.
- He that counts all counts will ne’er put plough in the earth.
56. Bui aphaak kuan a tawp.
- Do not meet troubles half-way.
- A little of everything is nothing in the main.
57. Buipi lei kei(pet) in zong khua ngai(sung).
- Difference is the right eye of prudence.
58. Buipi suangzawl tuak bang (khawlcip).
- He may ill turn that can not go(walk).
59. Bul kilok lodawn kilok.
- He that hath no ill fortune is trouble with good.
- The body is soon dressed than the soul.
60. Bokthok Kawl a taalah.
- Two fools in one house are too many.
- Nobody will go to hell for company.
61. Ci nana sihphut, veih paipai ek phut.
- Mischief comes by the pound and goes away by the ounce.
- Death keeps no calendar.
62. Caihkuan baal em, teekkuan zi neih.
- A goodthing is soon smatched up.
63. Ciamnuih gal suak.
- Misfortune comes on wings and depart on foot.
- Death’s day is doom’s day.
64. Ciam paltuak bang. (Tawmvei sung asipak).
- Meat begins and mass hinder’s journey.
65. Ciimnuai-a sa kibak Geltui ah kithuk.
- Charity begins at home.
- Meat and mass hinder no man’s journey.
- Love locks no cupboard.
- Love lives in cottages as well as in courts.
66. Numei khuaval akek kawi nuihsan.
- Covetouesness brings nothing home.
- Kindness can not be bought for goods.
- Every ass loves to hear himself bray.
67. Cingh lo selua a beel a but.
- A forced kindness deserves no thanks.
- As your wedding-ring wears, your care will wear away.
69. Cianghkot leh mankhawng kituak (Mualciangh leh sa siahna kituak).
- Every shoe fits not every foot.
- He that gains well and spends well needs no account book.
70. Cihnang thei lo sial a vui.
- Provide for the worst, the best will save itself.
- A drowning man will catch a straw.
71. Cilteh lo-in sailungtang kihual theilo (Thupi gending zu phamawh).
- Spit in your hands and take better hold.
- A good beginning makes a good ending.
72. Cit leh siam val lo.
- Kindness cannot be bought for goods.
- When a man is befriended, the law is ended.
- A good conscience is a continual feast.
- A good name keeps its lustre in the dark.
73. Cit leh siam top theih, melhoih to mawh.
- Beauty without bounty avails nought.
- Beauty without virtue is nothing.
- Beauty is power, smile is the sword.
- A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
- Kindness, like grain, increases by sowing.
74. Ciikpi tawh kibang (zuauzuau).
- As shrewd as a shrew.
75. Dah-a si om lo.
- Dangers are overcome by dangers.
- There is no medicine for fear.
- Dangers and delight grow on one stock.
76. Dahpa-khuang neih bang.
- Have God and have all.
77. Dahpa lokhawh bang.
- Lazy folks take the most pain.
- He begins to die that quits his desires.
78. Dahpa taptung kalh.
- Idle people have the least leisure.
- Idleness makes the wit rust.
- Idleness is the rootof all evil.
- Idleness is the parent of all vice.
79. Daideek bang.
- Great boast, small roast.
80. Dai keel hong lo Kawl pha.
- Diligence is the mother of good luck.
81. Deek-a tuktum zong gal suak.
- Everything is the worst for wearing.
- He brings a staff to break his own neck.
82. Deih teel a val.
- You are of so many minds, you will never ger married.
- If you will never get married.
- If you always say No! you’ll never be married.
- A maiden with too many wooer soften chooses the worst.
83. Duh selua kikaang koih.
- Delays are dangerous.
- Will is the cause of woe.
84. Duh selua lawhciang kikhup.
- Covetousness bursts the sack.
85. Duh omna leh ngaih omna.
- Greedy folks have long arms.
- Love is blind. Love is lawless.
86. Duh leh phaak ki-iim mawh.
- Love and cough cannot be hid.
- Love laughs at locksmith.
87. Duhhop samal man (mi sa-matsa va delh).
- He that does bidding deserves no dinging (beating).
88. Dot ding nei lo singbul dong.
- If you wish good advice, consult old men.
89. Ekkawng gei bang.
- Draft is good enough gor swine. Ill will never said well.
90. Ek nusiat bang.
- Eaten bread is forgotten.
- As melancholy as a cat.
91. Ek tamlua vok in gai lo.
- More than enough is too much.
92. Galhang gal-a si, sa-a hang sa-a si, keen-a hang keen-a si.
- Each cross hath its own inscription.
- Fate leads the willing but drives the stubborn.
93. Gallu kihta gallu tuak.
- Out of the frying pan into the fire.
94. Gal phawn kuan leh matut kuan.
- Take time while time is, for time will fly away.
- Take time by the forelock.
95. Gam-sai mat nang inn-sai zang.
- Throw a sprat to catch a whale.
96. Gataam thuk sangin khuaizu in tho awk zaw.
- Love makes all hearts gentle.
- Love and business teach eloquence.
97. Gatang khat in Kawl denna.
- Truth fears no colours.
- A word is enough to the wise.
98. Gangpil leh uipil kiman thei lo.
- You can’t catch old birds with chaff.
- A fox is not taken twice in the same snare.
99. Gang muang-a gang tawh lum.
- He that believes all, misses all.
- Beware of the fore part of a women, the hind part of a mule and all sides of a priest.
100. Giahbuk sing tom (muh peuhpeuh tawm mai).
- To make ends meet.
- To lay up for rainy day.
101. Gilpi leh sakhau (a ta-lah om lo)
- A beggar’s purse is bottomless.
- The sea refuses no rain.
102. Gitta tuk tun.
- A good thing is soon snatched up.
- A little good is soon spent.
103. Gip zong leh khuai zong kituak.
- A dry May and a dripping June bring all things into tune.
- If the cap fits, wear it.
104. Guahsia zuzu pangciing dok, guahsia zuzu baal pang khawng(gai).
- They must hunger in frost that will not work in heat.
105. Guapi kui tung lua paak tong thei.
- Those who exalted themselves shall be abased.
- Pride comes before a fall.
- He that promises too much means nothing.
106. Gul (lei-a) tum si lo, mi a tum si lo.
- He that bewails himself hath the cure in his hands.
107. Gul hileh a deek tuzo tanteh.
- If bed could tell all it knows, it would put many to the blush.
108. Gul tul lo in a gu kithei lo.
- He that bites on every weed must need light on poison.
109. Guta suan khial leh meima phualsel.
- He that hath a head of wax must not walk in the sun.
110. Gul in ka mei hong sik henla ke’n tuleng.
- When the fox preaches, beware of the geese.
111. Hakai pahtak lung heng.
- He that praise himself spattered himself.
- Truth and roses have throns about them.
- Truth hath a good face but bad cloths.
112. Hakai luphum bang.
- He can ill be master that never was a scholar.
113. Hangta sakuang bah.
- Fortune favours the bold.
-Virtue is its own reward.
- War is death’s feast.
114. Hausa khualzin bang.
- He who commands many things finishes but few.
- A great ship askes deep water.
115. Hausa sialmei let.
- The cat would eat fish but would not wet her feet.
- The lion is not so fierce as he is painted.
116. Hausa thu leh naupang thu.
- Man in general, are but great children. (Napolean)
117. Hausa ziak in tuikuang baan.
- If a good man thrives, all thrives with him.
118. Hawmsiam nungta, nebup si.
- He is unworthy to live who lives for himself.
- He lives long who lives well.
119. Hampha a si om lo.
- He is rich enough that wants nothing.
- Life lies not in living but in liking.
120. Heh selua nuihsak.
- He that is angry without cause must be pleased without amends.
121. Hikpi cipkhap zong bang lo.
- A storm in a teacup.
- All my eye and all humbug.
122. Hikpi cipkhap zong nuam tuam.
- A bit in the morning is better than none at all.
- A leg of lark is better than a body of a kite.
- Half a loaf is better than no bread.
123. Humpi cimawh in zong piauneel baak.
- A lion may be beholden a mouse.
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