Famous Proverbs
372 Proverbs about Ants / Page 2
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One generation plants the trees, another gets the shade.12.
Priests return to the temple, merchants to the shop.13.
The one who plants the tree is not the one who will enjoy its shade.14.
One generation plants the trees, the next eats the fruit.15.
A man who wants bread is ready for anything.16.
A man who wants to drown his dog says he is mad.17.
He who dispraises a thing, wants to buy it.18.
He who wants to be rich in a year is hanged at six months' end.19.
He who wants to travel far takes care of his beast.20.
Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the disposition.