There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
Proverbs and old sayings about help, people, things
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The cuckoo comes in April, and stays the month of May; sings a song at midsummer, and then goes away.
Proverbs and old sayings
One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.
Proverbs and old sayings about character, people, judges, nothing
An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than a an army of lions commanded by a stag.
Proverbs and old sayings about army
Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.
Proverbs and old sayings about people, mind, old, olderness
How to dress? When the money is going from you wear anything you like. When the money is coming to you, dress your best.
Proverbs and old sayings about money, contentment
Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.
Proverbs and old sayings about power
To teach well, we need not say all that we know, Successful teachers are effective in spite of the psychological theories they suffer under.
Proverbs and old sayings about teachers, suffering, need
St. Swithin's Day, if thou dost rain, for forty days it will remain; St. Swithin's Day, if thou be fair, for forty days 'twill rain no more.
Proverbs and old sayings about day, rain
Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel. Our reason is the pilot that steers her. Without winds the vessel would not move and without a pilot she would be lost.
Proverbs and old sayings about reason
Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, while everything superfluous runs over as from a full container. Who knows much says least.
Proverbs and old sayings about mind, contentment
It's tough trying to keep your feet on the ground, your head above the clouds, your nose to the grindstone, your shoulder to the wheel, your finger on the pulse, your eye on the ball and your ear to the ground.
Proverbs and old sayings about heads
It is because of man we wear swords.
Proverbs and old sayings about man
If a man is unhappy, his conduct is the cause.
Proverbs and old sayings about conduct, man
'Hit me but i must not hit you' is no game at all.
Proverbs and old sayings about games, contentment
If someone hates you, don't let her find you hateful.
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment
If you are merciful to the antelope, you go to bed hungry.
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment
At someone's funeral we weep for our own mothers and fathers.
Proverbs and old sayings
When a fool is told a proverb, it has to be explained to him.
Proverbs and old sayings
No matter how generous you are, you don't give your wife away.
Proverbs and old sayings about wife, contentment
