You can hardly make a friend in a year, but you can easily offend one in an hour.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment
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To learn what is good, a thousand days are not sufficient; to learn what is evil, an hour is too long.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about day, good, good luck
It is better to be without a wife for a minute than without tobacco for an hour.
Proverbs and old sayings Estonian about wife
The costliest clock can show only sixty minutes in every hour.
Proverbs and old sayings
The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about conduct, prestige
Even the most expensive clock still shows sixty minutes in every hour.
Proverbs and old sayings Jewish
Neither shall the wave, which has passed on, ever be recalled; nor can the hour, which has once fled by, return again.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin
If he has seven blind daughters, he will marry them in an hour.
Proverbs and old sayings Persian about blind
The fox does not do as much mischief in a year as it pays for in an hour.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish
It is better to be without a wife for a bit than without tobacco for an hour.
Proverbs and old sayings about wife
