If you want to know your past, look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future -- look into your present actions.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment
Proverbs and old sayings about Contentment, page 83
5134 proverbs and old sayings about contentment
If you are planning for one year, grow rice. If you are planning for 20 years grow trees. If you are planning for centuries, grow men.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment
If you want a crop for one year, grow grain; if you want a crop for ten years, grow a tree; if you want a crop for a hundred years, grow men.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment
If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment
A bride received into the home is like a horse that you have just bought; you break her in by constantly mounting her and continually beating her.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment
Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment
Though you don't believe in other gods, you believe in the god of thunder; though you don't believe in medicine generally, you believe in laxatives.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment
If you would be happy for a week, take a wife; if you would be happy for a month, kill a pig; but if you would be happy all your life, plant a garden.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment
You can't tell the cost of food and fuel without being the head of a household; you can't appreciate the love of your parents without having children of your own.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment
If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment
When you are poor, you will have no visitors even if you live in a crowded city; once you become rich, you'll be surprised by visitors from alleged relatives even if you live in a remote location.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment
If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help...
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment
You are you and I am I.
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment
It doesn't matter how slowly you go as long as you don't stop.
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment
You are beautiful; but learn to work, for you cannot eat your beauty.
Proverbs and old sayings Congolese about contentment
If you are too modest you will go hungry.
Proverbs and old sayings Congolese about contentment
You inherit from the dead, not from the sick.
Proverbs and old sayings Congolese about contentment
Don't buy the salt if you haven't licked it yet.
Proverbs and old sayings Congolese about contentment
No matter how hard you throw a dead fish in the water, it still won't swim.
Proverbs and old sayings Congolese about contentment
The mother-in-law shows you her thighs without shame, you are the embarrassed one.
Proverbs and old sayings Congolese about contentment
