Sayings about Rice
If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people. ~ Chinese Proverbs
Love is like young rice: transplanted, still it grows. ~ Malagasy Proverb
Sorrow is like rice in an attic: you use a little every day and at the end it is all gone. ~ Malagasy Proverbs
Growing rice gives you more than poetry will. ~ Japanese Proverbs
Laugh at the rice and you will weep for the lentil. ~ Creole Proverb
Women are like raindrops: some fall on palaces, others on rice fields. ~ Vietnamese Proverbs
Don’t trust a hungry man to watch your rice. ~ Tibetan Proverbs
Ants can attack with a grain of rice. ~ Malagasy Proverb
A pig used to dirt turns its nose up at rice. ~ Japanese Proverb
The bigger the pot the more rice will stick to it. ~ Solomon Islander Proverb
You can’t get rice by pounding bran. ~ Myanmar Proverb
Cold tea and cold rice are tolerable; cold looks and cold words aren’t. ~ Japanese Proverb
Better than a banquet somewhere else is a good cup of tea and a bowl of rice at home. ~ Japanese Proverb
With water make rivers, with rice make armies. ~ Cambodian Proverbs
If you plant grass, you won’t get rice. ~ Malaysian Proverbs
Sun is for cucumbers, rain for rice. ~ Vietnamese Proverb
Without rice, even the cleverest housewife cannot cook. ~ Chinese Proverb
Even the most resourceful housewife cannot create miracles from rice less pantry. ~ Chinese Proverb
He that has no money might as well be buried in a rice tub with his mouth sewn up. ~ Chinese Proverb
Luck is like having a rice dumpling fly into your mouth. ~ Japanese Proverb
Once the rice is pudding, it’s too late to reclaim the rice. ~ Indonesian Proverbs
If you don’t have a brain, join the army; if you don’t have rice, use beans instead. ~ Myanmar Proverb
Rice is born in water and must die in wine. ~ Italian Proverbs
Plant rice when the ground is ready; pursue women when you feel passion. ~ Tibetan Proverb
Apple blossoms are beautiful, but rice dumplings are better. ~ Japanese Proverb
Talking doesn’t get your rice cooked. ~ Chinese Proverb
A teacher is someone who ploughs with his tongue to fill his little bowl with rice. ~ Chinese Proverb
When the curry is tasty, the rice is hard. ~ Malawian Proverbs
Sweet rice is eaten quickly. ~ Sierra Leonean Proverbs
It’s better for people to wait for rice, than rice for people. ~ Chinese Proverb
You can live with tea and cold rice but not with cold words. ~ Chinese Proverb
Make the amount of sauce you use correspond to the amount of rice you have. ~ Vietnamese Proverb
Quotations about Rice
Rice is great if you’re really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something. ~ Mitch Hedberg
Rice at present prices provides more food for the money than most of the other cereals. ~ David F. Houston
With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow — I have still joy in the midst of all these things. ~ Confucius
The American dream is a crock. Stop wanting everything. Everyone should wear jeans and have three T-shirts, eat rice and beans. ~ Bill Hicks
She’s been married so many times she has rice marks on her face. ~ Henny Youngman
Same old slippers, same old rice, same old glimpse of paradise. ~ William James Lampton
Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling. ~ Dave Barry
Every Grain of Rice: Simple Chinese Home Cooking. ~ Book preview
