Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese, page 85

1827 proverbs and old sayings indochinese

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about failure, question

The greater your troubles, the greater is your opportunity to show yourself a worthy person.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about problems, chance, people

To meet an old friend in a distant country is like the delight of rain after a long drought.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about country, rain, old, olderness

All things change, and we change with them. [Lat. , Omnia mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis. ]

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about change, things

A bird cannot roost but on one branch. a mouse can drink no more than its fill from a river.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about drinking

A bird does not sing because he has the answer to something, he sings because he has a song.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

It takes three years to learn to be a man of integrity; it only takes three days to degrade.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about integrity, day, man

Don't let your tongue or your paintbrush wag your tail when they are making up an inventory.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

The first half of the night, think of your own faults; the second half, the faults of others.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about night

The company of the wicked is like living in a fish market; one becomes used to the foul odor.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about companies, stores

Listening well is as powerful as talking well, and is also as essential to true conversation.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about essential, conversation, talking

Just as a medicine may not cure a serious illness, wine will certainly not dispel your grief.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about sadness, medicine, wine

To pretend to satisfy one's desires with worldly goods is like using straw to put out a fire.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about fire, fire brigade

Not until just before dawn do people sleep best; not until people get old do they become wise.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about people, sleep, old, olderness

It is no good going to the river just wanting to catch a fish; you have to take a net as well.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about good, good luck

The evil is dreaded by men but not heaven; the kind-hearted is cheated by mortals but not God.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about man, god

A wise man is able to adapt to the surprises of life as water to the decanter it is poured in.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about life, water, man

If you see in your wine the reflection of a person not in your range of vision, don't drink it.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about vision, drinking, wine, people

A person of high principles is one who can watch an entire chess game without making a comment.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about games, people

A jade stone is useless before it is processed; a man is good-for-nothing until he is educated.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about nothing, good, good luck, man