Sum tawh kisai Paunak pawlkhat

[David Lian]

 

@ Ready money is the safest medicine (Bulgarian)

• A baihsa a om sum pen a lungmuanhuaipen zatui hi.

@ Money is a master everywhere (Czech).

• Sum pen mun khempeuhah To (topa) hi.

@ It is expensive goods that empty one’s purse (Voyvodina).

• Sumbawm sung a hawm khat adingin vante tam man hi.

@ When money speaks, the world keeps silent (Swedish).

• Sum a pau ciang’ leitung dai hi.

@ Money is waiting to be counted (Latin).

• Sum in a ki sim ding ngakin om hi.

@ Money is in the eyes of many, but in hands of few (Sardinian). 

• Sum in mi tampi muhna ah om a, mi tawmbek i’ khut sungah om hi.

@ Save white money for black days (Serbian)

• A mial nite adingin, a siangtho sum khol in.

@ Work done expects money (Portuguese).

• Sum na lamet leh na sem in.

@ Money, land, and women are the roots of quarrel (Hindustani)

• Sum, leitang leh nupite in kitot theihna i’ a zungte hi.

@ Money has a hundred legs when it goes and only two when it comes (Serbian)

• Sum in a paikhiat ciang’ khe za nei a, ei kiang hong pai ciang’ khe nih bek nei hi.

@ With money you would not know yourself, without money nobody would know you (Spanish).

• Sum leh a kihtakhuai (dawi, kau) van in kidaisak theilo hi.

@ Some people are masters of money, and some are slaves (Riumanian).

• Mi pawlkhatte in sum i’ topa hi a, pawlkhatte in sum i’ sila hi.

@ Money cannot buy thing that are not for sale (Chinese).

• Zuak ding a hilote sumin ki lei thei lo.

@ If you have money, all you say is gospel truth.

• Sum na neih leh, na gen khempeuh lungdamna thuman thutak hi.
  
  

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