If you must play, decide on three things at the start the rules of he game, the stakes, and the quitting time.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment
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A flower you plant may not necessarily bloom; but the seed of a tree you happen to drop may grow into a forest.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment
If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment
If you curse your wife in the evening, you will sleep alone at night. A crisis is an opportunity riding the dangerous wind.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment
Do not do all you can, do not spend all that you have, do not believe all that you hear, and do not tell all that you know.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment
You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment
When you have read a book for the first time, you get to know a friend; read it for a second time and you meet an old friend.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment
Life itself cannot give you joy/ Unless you really will it. / Life just gives you time and space -- It's up to you to fill it.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment
You looked high and low till your iron shoes were worn out but still to no avail. Then you chanced upon it without ever looking.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment
If you want to know your past, look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future -- look into your present actions.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment
If you are planning for one year, grow rice. If you are planning for 20 years grow trees. If you are planning for centuries, grow men.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment
If you want a crop for one year, grow grain; if you want a crop for ten years, grow a tree; if you want a crop for a hundred years, grow men.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment
If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment
A bride received into the home is like a horse that you have just bought; you break her in by constantly mounting her and continually beating her.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment
Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment
Though you don't believe in other gods, you believe in the god of thunder; though you don't believe in medicine generally, you believe in laxatives.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment
If you would be happy for a week, take a wife; if you would be happy for a month, kill a pig; but if you would be happy all your life, plant a garden.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment
You can't tell the cost of food and fuel without being the head of a household; you can't appreciate the love of your parents without having children of your own.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment
If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment
When you are poor, you will have no visitors even if you live in a crowded city; once you become rich, you'll be surprised by visitors from alleged relatives even if you live in a remote location.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment
