Proverbs and old sayings, page 496

43574 proverbs and old sayings

To open a business is very easy; to keep it open is very difficult.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about affair

When a finger points at the moon, the imbecile looks at the finger.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about moon

Winning an argument does not mean one has convinced one's opponent.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men's clothes.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about clothes, man

One dog snarls at a shadow; a hundred howl at each other's barking.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about shadow

The doorway to charity is difficult to open and difficult to close.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about charity

One more good man on earth is better than an extra angel in heaven.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about angels, earth, good, good luck, man

It is often more difficult to come back home than it is to go away.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about home

One false step brings everlasting grief. Short please, long lament.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about sadness

A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about perfection, common sense

Small men think they are small; great men never know they are great.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about man

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

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

I was angered, for I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about man

You never are so easily mistaken as when you think you know the way.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

The fly that plays too long in the candle, singes his wings at last.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Everyone stretches his legs according to the length of his coverlet.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

An answer that does not resolve a quarrel makes a thousand new ones.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

By filling one's head instead of one's pocket, one cannot be robbed.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about heads

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about man

Spouses that love each other say a thousand things without speaking.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about things, love