Proverbs and old sayings, page 489

43574 proverbs and old sayings

What first appears as a calamity may later bring good fortune.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about wealth, good, good luck

Of all the female qualities a warm heart is the most valuable.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about heart

Empty the clear path to heaven, crowded the dark road to hell.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about dark, hell

If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about dance, contentment

If you don't want to be cheated, ask the price at three shops.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about stores, contentment

Our needs are few but our wants increase with our possessions.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Choose your inn before dark, get back on the road before dawn.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about dark

If you are not a fish, how can you know if the fish are happy?

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about fishing, happiness, contentment

It is only good when the old and the young respect each other.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about respect, good, good luck, old, olderness

Those who remove mountains begin by carrying away small stones.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Force may lead to agreement, but truth will lead to conviction.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about force, police, truth

Making a thousand decisions, even the wise will make a mistake.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about mistake

The beginning of wisdom is calling things by their right names.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about beginning, wisdom, rightness, things

Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

The Yangtse never runs backwards; man recaptures not his youth.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about youth, man

The Yangtze never runs backwards; man recaptures not his youth.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about youth, man

Often one finds one's destiny just where one hides to avoid it.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about destiny

The pen of the tongue should be dipped in the ink of the heart.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about heart

The wise man forgets insults as the ungrateful forget benefits.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about insults, man

Nobility is what is earned by those who have no other earnings.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese