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A smile makes you ten years younger.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about smile, contentment

A smile will gain you ten more years of life.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about smile, life, contentment

Rich men accumulate money; the poor accumulate years.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about wealth, money, man

Ten years of oblivion in school may bring you fame overnight.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about forgetness, school, fame, contentment

It's better to die two years early than to live one year too long.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about death

O man, you who do not live a hundred years, why fret a thousand minutes?

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about man, contentment

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is today.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about time

Virtuous for ten years is still not enough; evil for one day is too much already.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about day

To do good for ten years is not enough; do bad things for one day and it is too much.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about things, bad luck, day, bad, good, good luck

A man can never be perfect in a hundred years; but he may become corrupt in less than a day.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about corruption, perfection, day, man

It takes three years to learn to be a man of integrity; it only takes three days to degrade.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about integrity, day, man

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 man, 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 prosperity, people, contentment

Wood may remain ten years in the water, but it will never become a crocodile.

Proverbs and old sayings Congolese about water

A horse aged thirty: don't add any more years.

Proverbs and old sayings

The yew tree exists three hundred years: first green, then dry, then gone.

Proverbs and old sayings

There's no evil that lasts a hundred years, nor a body that can endure it.

Proverbs and old sayings Cuban about body

No mad dog runs seven years.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

A threatened man lives seven years.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about man

So many years playing the marquise and she still doesn't know how to wave a fan.

Proverbs and old sayings