Proverbs and old sayings about Contentment

Time is like a sword. If you did not cut it, it will cut you.

If you are a friend of the captain, you can wipe your hands on the sail.

You can take a monkey out of the bush, but you cant take the bush of a monkey.

You can't clap with one hand only.

You may hide the fire, but what about the smoke?

Marry a mountain girl and you marry the whole mountain.

You don't milk a cow with your hands in your pockets.

Lesson: Don't lose your pen

1. Lost Your Pen = No Pen
2. No Pen = No Notes
3. No Notes = No Study
4. No Study = Fail
5. Fail = No Diploma
6. No Diploma = No Work
7. No Work = No Money
8. No Money = No Food
9. No Food = You Get Skinny
10. Skinny = Then You Get Ugly...

The tree that is not taller than you cannot shade you.

You cannot run and scratch your ass at the same time.

It's better to keep what little you have, than to risk it for something more.

Learn a language, and you will avoid a war.

What you lose in the fire, you will find in the ashes.

You can only lean against that which resists.

Treat the days well and they will treat you well.

Avoid suspicion: when you're walking through your neighbor's melon patch, don't tie your shoe.

You judge the way you live.

Whether you boil snow or pound it you can have but water of it.

You can't put two saddles on the same horse.

No matter how sharp your teeth are, you can't bite water.