Don't pride over your wealth or beauty, one will be gone in a night and the other with a fever.
Proverbs and old sayings about proudness, wealth, beauty, night
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There are five ways in which to become wise: be silent, listen, remember, grow older and study.
Proverbs and old sayings
Two scorpions living in the same hole will get along better than two sisters in the same house.
Proverbs and old sayings about home, house
Throw a resourceful person into a river, and he will probably come out with a fish in his hand.
Proverbs and old sayings about fishing, people
O! my sister Your son is like how you raised him. And your husband is like how you trained him.
Proverbs and old sayings about husband, contentment
Translation: Give the job to a person who knows how to perform it best even if it will cost you.
Proverbs and old sayings about people, contentment
He makes a dome out of a grain. Meaning: He worries about a small problem as if it is a big one.
Proverbs and old sayings
When a rich man wants children, he gets dollars, when a poor man wants dollars, he gets children.
Proverbs and old sayings about children, wealth, man
In the desert of life the wise person travels by caravan, while the fool prefers to travel alone.
Proverbs and old sayings about people, life
While the word is yet unspoken, you are master of it; when once it is spoken, it is master of you.
Proverbs and old sayings about word, contentment
One is better off seated than standing. lying than seated, asleep than awake, and dead than alive.
Proverbs and old sayings about lie
When the judge's mule dies, everyone goes to the funeral; when the judge himself dies, no one does.
Proverbs and old sayings about judges
Ask for a science that would be useful to you, would keep you from harm and shame, then elevate you.
Proverbs and old sayings about science, shame, contentment
The words of the elderly are as sweet as honey, but if you do not listen they become as sour as bile.
Proverbs and old sayings about word, contentment
A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain; and the best promise is that which has been proved by rain.
Proverbs and old sayings about promise, fulfillment, rain
Today is wine, and tomorrow is an assignment. Today we will drink wine, and tomorrow we will work hard.
Proverbs and old sayings about wine, drinking, work
The best place in the world is on the back of a horse, and the best thing to do in time is to read a book.
Proverbs and old sayings about things, world, time
If there's no choice but advice, ask for the decisiveness of an advisor or the advice of a decisive person.
Proverbs and old sayings about advice, people
Your tongue is your horse? if you take care of it, it takes care of you; if you betray it, betrays it will.
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment
Love sees clearly, hate even more so, but jealousy sees the most clear, because it is equal to love plus hate.
Proverbs and old sayings about hate, jealousy, love
