Proverbs and old sayings, page 495

43575 proverbs and old sayings

Many books do not use up words; many words do not use up thoughts.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about use, word, books

It takes a year to make a friend, but you can lose one in an hour.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much and doing nothing.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about talking, trap, fishing, nothing

A chicken is hatched even from such a well-sealed thing as an egg.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about things

When the boat reaches mid-stream, it is too late to stop the leak.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about experience, nature, man

A bit of fragrance always sticks to the hand that gives you roses.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

From Nanking to Beijing, buyers are never as smart as the sellers.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about intelligence

You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

People fool themselves. They pray for a long life but fear old age.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about pray, olderness, age, fear, life, people, old

If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about worry, shadow, contentment

One never needs their humor as much as when they argue with a fool.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about humor

Over a distance of a thousand miles only humanity works, not power.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about humanity, power

If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about fall, time, contentment

The sea of bitterness has no bounds - repent and the shore is near.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

He who has a straight body is not worried about his crooked shadow.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about shadow, body

No wise man takes responsibility for an eighteen-year-old daughter.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about man, old, olderness

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine nor a garden without love.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about garden, love

Better to do a kindness near home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about home