Proverbs and old sayings about Contentment, page 173

5134 proverbs and old sayings about contentment

If you dip your arm into the picklepot let it be up to the elbow.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about contentment

You can measure the depth of the sea but what about a man's heart?

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about contentment

As if it weren't bad enough to fall, the ladder lands on top of you.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about contentment

Don't think back on someone whose name you forgot, he is probably someone else by now.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about contentment

When you are crossing over a river you might be eaten by crocodiles, but don't let yourself get bitten by the little fish.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about contentment

Think before you leap.

Proverbs and old sayings Malaysian about contentment

If you have, give; if you lack, seek.

Proverbs and old sayings Malaysian about contentment

After Falling, The ladder falls on you.

Proverbs and old sayings Malaysian about contentment

Smack a tray of water and you get to wash your face.

Proverbs and old sayings Malaysian about contentment

You can't get at the precious sago without first breaking the bark.

Proverbs and old sayings Malaysian about contentment

Just because you are irritated by a mosquito, you burn the mosquito curtain.

Proverbs and old sayings Malaysian about contentment

As long as you happen to put your hand in a container full of pickles, might as well dip your whole arm in the container.

Proverbs and old sayings Malaysian about contentment

If you want something, you'll do a thousand things to obtain it. But if you don't want something, you'll give a thousand excuses to refrain from it.

Proverbs and old sayings Malaysian about contentment

If you plant grass, you won't get rice.

Proverbs and old sayings Malaysian about contentment

Fear to let fall a drop and you will spill a lot.

Proverbs and old sayings Malaysian about contentment

Fear to let spill a drop and you will spill a lot.

Proverbs and old sayings Malaysian about contentment

If you are too shy to ask, you might lose your way. When you go away, the conversation changes.

Proverbs and old sayings Malaysian about contentment

If you've nothing to do, dig a spinster's grave.

Proverbs and old sayings Malian about contentment

You will never drown where you always take a bath.

Proverbs and old sayings Malian about contentment

You cannot wage war without the sound of gunpowder.

Proverbs and old sayings Malian about contentment