Ambition is like hunting for whales - sometimes you lose them.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about ambition, americans, contentment
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It's as difficult to win love as to wrap salt in pine needles.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about love, americans
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are different things.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about laziness, life, things, americans
A human learns how to talk early, but how to keep silent late.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about human imperfections, americans
The good lawyer knows the law, the clever one knows the judge.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about intelligence, judges, law, americans, good, good luck
What's the good of a fair apple if it has a worm in its heart?
Proverbs and old sayings South American about heart, americans, good, good luck
It is easy for a man in health to preach patience to the sick.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about patience, americans, man
Drink and frankfurters for a dime; kill a man before his time.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about drinking, time, americans, man
A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about medicine, americans
If you desire many things, many things will be seem but a few.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about things, americans, contentment
He who laughs at others' woes finds few friends and many foes.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans
Don't start economizing when you are down to your last dollar.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans, contentment
If the goat would not jump around, she wouldn't break her leg.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans
If it's wrong to eat the devil, it's wrong to drink his broth.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about bad, drinking, devil, americans
Candour will lose you some friends, but not as many as deceit.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about lie, americans, contentment
The happiest place in the world to live is within one's income.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about world, americans
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about marriage, eyes, americans
He that makes a fire of straw has much smoke but little warmth.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about smoke, fire, fire brigade, americans
After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about ambition, wealth, americans, man
Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow your wife may come home.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about drinking, home, wife, americans
