VI. Taioaan Lygan (Taiwanese Slang)
Ah'nng khaq-bat ma u phang.
(No matter how tight a duck's egg can be, it still has holes.)
Baxnsu khythaau laan.
(The beginning of tens of thousands of things is always hard.)
Baylaang aix ciorkviax, phvaymia-laang aix siorngmia.
(Ugly peoson like to look into the mirror,
unlucky person like to see fortune-teller.)
Boo hor-toexky, ciu khie boo hor-zhux.
(Without good foundation, there can be no good building.)
Chienkym boea zhux, baxnkym boea zhuopvy.
(Thousand dollars to buy a house, ten thousand dollars to buy
good neigher. )
Ciah bie mxzay bie-kex.
(Eat rice, but has no idea how much is the cost.)
Ciah laang cidkyn iaxtioh heeng laang sieniuo.
(Eat one pound from others, you should return four ounces at least.)
Cidky zhao, cidtiarm lo.(Every tip of grass has a drop of dew.)
Cidliap bie, pahliap kvoa.
(A grain of rice is the result of hundred drops of sweat.)
Cidviu svy, pah'viu sie.
(There is only one way of birth,
yet there are hundred ways of death.)
Cvii siekhaf, laang nngxkhaf.
(Money has four legs, people has two.)
Gyn'ar-laang u hvi, boo zhuix.(Kids have ears, no mouth.)
Hanzuu hofciah biern toaxtiaau.
(A tasty potato doen't have to be big.)
Hor ia cidkux, bae ia cidkux.
(Good is a sentence, bad is also a sentence.)
Kaau ia oe poaqloh chiuxkhaf.
(Even a monkey can fall down from a tree.)
Laang boe kaux, sviaf sefng kaux.
(Person has not reached, his voice reached first)
Laang boo chienjit hor, hoef boo pahjit aang.
(A person can not be good for one thousand days,
a flower can not be red for one hundred days.)
Laang sie laau miaa, hor sie laau phoee.
(Men left fame after death, tiger left a skn after death.)
Phahtng chiwkud tientox iorng.
(One becomes stronger after breaking one's arm.)
Soeahaxn thaubarn puu, toaxhaxn thaukhafn guu.
(One steals squash at young age will steal cows when grow up.)
Soeasoex-ho, loh kuo thoo ia oe taam.
(Small raindrops can wet the road with persistence.)
Zexng symmih, svy symmih. (Bear what you grow.)