Rice origins from water and dies in the wine.

In China they say....

You can't eat, neither one rice grain, without effort
One works, nine eat rice.
Rice has always the smell of the earth, from which it sprouted.
Men would die for money, as birds would do for rice indigestion
Sharing own rice with an honest friend satisfies twofold.
Though you can extend your rice-fields at infinity, you won't be able to eat a lot of rice a day; and though you can make your house as big as a castle, when you will lie down, you won't occupy more space than before
If you make plannings for one year, you sow rice. If you make plannings for ten years, you sow a tree. If you make plannings for life, you teach people

Japan

Just eat your rice, heaven will look after the rest
Talking doesn't make rice cooking
Neither the best housewife can't make her meal without rice

India

<< Substance and Joy are in rice>>: Veda, holy indian texts, dated II-I millennium b. C. , statement

Madagascar

Sorrow is like rice in the barn: day by day, it lessens a bit