First of all, I would like to talk that we “Thai” people, we live with teaching and belief from generation to generation. Because these things are the truth, even made from old people or ancestor. It is still the dharmic truth. There fore, these maxims reflect to our society tremendously clearly.
I think every society live the life like some of these maxims. For example, “Dogs don’t bite minors who walk behind the senior”. We know that it is like this since this world has human. Maybe we don’t even know that it is written as the proverb that always warn and tell us to stay carefully. It is like the nature of human and the art of using a life happily and securely. Another proverb “Speak tactfully to satisfy both parties”, this is exactly
how we are told and use from generation to generation, sometimes it comes naturally. In the other hand, this proverb might not be used with every society “ A daughter is like a loo erected in the front yard ”. I think this influenced from the religion or maybe the different belief.