Famous Proverbs
534 Proverbs about Life / Page 15
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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.142.
Life is like a candle in the wind; like frost on the roof; like the wriggling of the fish in the pan.143.
Life itself cannot give you joy/ Unless you really will it./ Life just gives you time and space -- It's up to you to fill it.144.
Man fools himself. He prays for a long life, and he fears an old age.145.
One moment's error becomes a lifetime of sadness.146.
People fool themselves. They pray for a long life but fear old age.147.
Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.148.
Respect for ones parents is the highest duty of civil life.149.
The happiest life ends before death.150.
The life of an old man can be compared with the flame of a candle in a drought.