Proverbs and old sayings about Contentment, page 243

5134 proverbs and old sayings about contentment

You can lead a horse to the water, but you can't make him drink.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

Confess you were wrong yesterday; it will show you are wise today.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

Rule: Never perform card tricks for the people you play poker with.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

Just when you think you've finally hit bottom, someone tosses you a shovel.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

You must be fully prepared to lose a great deal in order to make a great deal.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

Put an Irishman on the spit, and you can always get another Irishman to baste him.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

It always takes a person much longer to tell you what he thinks than what he knows.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

If you can't get people to listen to you any other way, tell them it's confidential.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

How to dress? When the money is going from you wear anything you like. When the money is coming to you, dress your best.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, while everything superfluous runs over as from a full container. Who knows much says least.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

'Hit me but i must not hit you' is no game at all.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

If someone hates you, don't let her find you hateful.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

If you are merciful to the antelope, you go to bed hungry.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

No matter how generous you are, you don't give your wife away.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

The place where you are happy is better than the place you were born.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

If you have no time to take care of your sickness, you get time to die.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

If you go to a rat's village and it is eating palm nuts, you eat some too.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

If they are uttering insults and don't mean you, and yet you reply, you have condemned yourself.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

The rabbit has a saying which goes: 'if you were born a male then you are given impossible tasks. '

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

No one roasts rotten meat and puts it in the mouth of their friend and then says 'you mouth stinks. '

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment