The beautiful woman is the sister of many. (A good-looking woman hasmany admirers who claim to be related so that they may visit and make love to her.)


The king is the lake. (The lake does not differentiate; it drowns thefisherman who is always in the vicinity and the occasional traveler as well. Thus, the king does not discriminate in taxes, and all must pay.)


Sense has left you like a person nodding in sleep before he has spreadhis sleeping mat. (Said to, or of, a person who begins a project. that he doesn't have the means to finish.)

A garden without young trees. (Such a garden will soon come to an-end, as will a family without children.)