Proverbs and old sayings about Contentment, page 116

5134 proverbs and old sayings about contentment

If you want to totally avoid being deceived, get married on February 30th.

Proverbs and old sayings French about contentment

When you rely too much on reason, you end up not relying enough on feeling.

Proverbs and old sayings French about contentment

If you lose your wife and fifteen pennies -- oh! what a pity about the money.

Proverbs and old sayings French about contentment

Anoint a villain and he will prick you, prick a villain and he will anoint you.

Proverbs and old sayings French about contentment

A spaniel, a wife, and a walnut tree, The more you beat 'em the better they be.

Proverbs and old sayings French about contentment

To whom do you offer your shells for sale? To people who come from Saint Michel.

Proverbs and old sayings French about contentment

Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her to-day, expect not to regain her to-morrow.

Proverbs and old sayings French about contentment

If you have a good case, try to compromise; if you have a bad one, take it to court.

Proverbs and old sayings French about contentment

When you can't find peace within yourself, there is no use looking for it somewhere else.

Proverbs and old sayings French about contentment

Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something.

Proverbs and old sayings French about contentment

If you want to love your household as much as your bread then you will have to knead your wife like dough.

Proverbs and old sayings French about contentment

Remember that everyone you ever meet is sure to fear something, to love something, and to have lost something.

Proverbs and old sayings French about contentment

What! No star, and you are going out to sea? Marching, and you have no music? Traveling, and you have no book? What! No love, and you are going out to live?

Proverbs and old sayings French about contentment

If you see a man in a gown eating with a man in rags, the food belongs to the latter.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

Choose your company before you choose your drink.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

Do not light a fire that you cannot yourself put out.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

Keep a thing seven years and you'll find a use for it.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

See that your own hearth is swept before you lift your neighbor's ashes.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

You a lady, I a lady, who is to put the sow out of doors?

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

If a donkey kicks you and you kick back, you are both donkeys.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment