Proverbs and old sayings about Contentment, page 93

5134 proverbs and old sayings about contentment

You must knock a long while against an alder-bush before you get a swarm of bees out of it.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about contentment

You may preach ever so long to the wolf, he will nevertheless call for the lamb before night.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about contentment

Give a pig when it grunts, and a child when it cries, and you will have a fine pig, and a bad child.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about contentment

As you make your bed so you must lie on it.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about contentment

You cannot get blood from a stone.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

Don't try to run before you can walk.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

Don't kick the horse you have to ride.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

Don't try to walk before you can crawl.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

You cannot get a quart into a pint pot.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

Call a woman a harlot and you make her one.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

You can't teach an old dog how to gnaw a bone.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

You can't bind a cloud even with copper chains.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

You cannot eat nuts without breaking some shells.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

You cannot take hawks without climbing some cliffs.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

If you are ready to believe, you are easy to deceive.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

If you have a bulldozer, you don't need a snow shovel.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

If you are going to steal horses, steal thoroughbreds.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

If you lie down with a man, you may rise up as a woman.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

If you are praised by a villain, mend your ways at once.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

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