Proverbs and old sayings about Contentment, page 81

5134 proverbs and old sayings about contentment

If you do not study hard when young you'll end up bewailing your failures as you grow up.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

You can mirror something from other people; you can only give out that which is your own.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

The dragon teaches you that if you want to climb high you have to do it against the wind.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

When you are very angry, don't go to a lawyer; when you are very hungry, don't be a poet.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

You will never lose a battle if you know your own situation as well as that of the enemy.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

To know and know that you know, not to know and know that you don't know, that is to know.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

You can accompany a friend for a thousand miles but at some time you must take your leave.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

Thatch your roof before rainy weather, dig your well before you become parched with thirst.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

You think you've lost your horse? Who knows, he may bring a whole herd back to you someday.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

If you are married to a chicken obey the chicken. If you are married to a dog obey the dog.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

It is no good going to the river just wanting to catch a fish; you have to take a net as well.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

If you see in your wine the reflection of a person not in your range of vision, don't drink it.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

A man's faults all conform to his type of mind. Observe his faults and you may know his virtues.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

The people who talk the best are not the only ones who can tell you the most interesting things.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

Do not all you can; spend not all you have; believe not all you hear; and tell not all you know.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

Don't promise something when you are full of joy; don't answer letters when you are full of anger.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

There are three kinds of person that you must not challenge: civil servants, customers and widows.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

It is easy to dodge a spear that comes in front of you but hard to avoid an arrow shot from behind.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment