Thai Quotes

“RAK MAK MAK”
― DarknessAndLight

“I have stress. Of course I have stress. But there are some situations we can’t control. You can’t change things outside yourself, so you change your attitude. I think that approach works for the Thai people. Like when you’re pissed at someone, and you can’t do anything about it. You feel you want to hit them, but you can’t, so you take a deep breath and let it go. Otherwise, it will ruin your day.”
― Eric Weiner

“When you have a Thai girlfriend you never lose her - you just sometimes lose your place in the queue”
― Warren Olson

“Typhoon."
“...”
I turned toward the familiar voice again, distracted as I had been looking at the items on display.
He found me again…
"Yes?”
― Howlsairy, South : Beside the sky เล่ม 1-2

“Only a few hardy Westerners learn to speak Thai and even fewer learn to read it. At first glance it seems impossible and on second glance one would much rather not. The alphabet has forty-six wiggly consonants and thirty-one vowels, some of which are not visible to Western eyes. The language is a mixture of Pali, Sanskrit, Cambodian, and is of the Sino-Tibetan family and it seems to embrace the rules of all even when they conflict. King Rama Khamheng devised the alphabet in the thirteenth century and the writing shows the effect of having been born full-blown of kingly whim.”
― Carol Hollinger, Mai Pen Rai Means Never Mind an American Housewife's Honest Love Affair with the Irrepressible People of Thailand

“Celebrating Valentine's Day is like falling in love with Bangkok all over again.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“The major difference between written Chinese and Thai is that Thai is written with an alphabet: 64 symbols, each with its own sound. When you put them together, they make "words"; there are no characters. That makes it rather easier than Chinese, for in Thai, if you know how a word ought to sound, you can read it when you see it. Writing is not so easy, for the letters must be combined in a particular manner, and for some sounds there are several possible letters; I do not know why that is so. Still, a man can study on his own, with the book as teacher. I know enough of the language to learn in this way because I have been listening to it for years. To learn this way when I first came here would not have been possible. Before long, I shall be able to read and write fluently; if only the Thai wouldn't write their words all run together in a string! That is what they do; there are no spaces between the words.”
― Botan, Letters from Thailand

“But why bother?" asked Weng Kim. "That is exactly the point, Weng Kim. We are Chinese, and Chinese people do bother. Thais were still eating rice with their fingers fifty years ago, and now they use whatever the foreigners use. We have used chopsticks since ancient times; they worked better for the purpose intended than fingers did then, and better than forks and spoons do now.”
― Botan, Letters from Thailand