proverb

While waiting in line at the foreign office for two hours for a renewal of my residence permit, we were entertained by casual conversation with an elderly air force pilot from India. He shared with us some jokes, but felt strongly about these two proverbs which we discussed a bit... 1) "a son is a son until he acquires a wife; a daughter is a daughter all her life" and 2) "eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a queen, and dinner like a pauper" and for him, breakfast is a banana, a bowl of oatmeal, a slice of bread with pickled herring, and a slice of bread with Norwegian goat cheese, washed down with a cup of coffee.