Thursday, January 6, 2011

PROVERBS ON LIFE

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

A wise man's day is worth a fool's life.

Four things come not back -- the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

By the yard, life is hard. By the inch, it's a cinch.

Variety is the spice of life.

A sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to our steps as we walk the tightrope of life.

Every day of your life is a page of your history.

Only three things in life are certain birth, death and change.

A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every passerby leaves a mark.

A smile will gain you ten more years of life.

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends whom we choose.

Once bitten by a snake, he is scared all his life at the mere sight of a rope.

One's shadow grows larger than life when admired by the light of the moon.

The error of one moment becomes the sorrow of a whole life.

Life is half spent before one knows what life is.

Smoke, floods, and a troublesome wife / husband, are enough to drive a man / woman out of his /her life.

You have to take life as it happens, but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it.

All the honey a bee gathers during its lifetime doesn't sweeten its sting.

A hard-working life is the best security for food in old age.

Death to the wolf is life to the lambs.

He is unworthy of life who gives no life to another.

Live your own life, for you will die your own death.

Science is unlimited in its course; life is short.

Seek not the luxuries of life lest you reap sorrow.

The best things in life are free.

Life is not separate from death. It only looks that way.

Endurance and courage are life's shield.

A contented ass enjoys a long life.

Friends are flowers in the garden of life.

A good life defers wrinkles.

No man is quick enough to enjoy life to the full.

If ever you should need my life, come and take it.

Every life has its joy, every joy its law.

Better ride a good horse for a year, than an ass all your life.

Wisdom in the man, patience in the wife, brings peace to the house, and a happy life.

He is lifeless that is faultless.

Life is like this: sometimes sun, sometimes rain.

A good citizen owes his life to his country.

Better to lose a minute in your life than your life in a minute.

Truth never dies, but lives a wretched life.

A life of leisure, and a life of laziness, are two things.

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Life is made up of tomorrows.

The pleasure of love lasts but a moment, The pain of love lasts a lifetime.

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Life, like a fire, begins in smoke and ends in ashes.

The worst things in life are: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.

As the spokes of a wheel are attached to the hub, so all things are attached to life.

Fear is the fever of life.

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows: he breathes but does not live.

He who thinks too much about every step he takes will stay on one leg all his life.

If life is fulfilled we go away with empty hands.

Man fools himself. He prays for a long life, and he fears an old age.

Respect for ones parents is the highest duty of civil life.

The happiest life ends before death.

The life of an old man is compared with the flame of a candle in a drought.

The most important thing in life is to be cremated well.

Progeny are the reward of life.

If the bread in the oven is a failure you lose a week; if the harvest is a failure you lose a year; if marriage is a failure then you lose a life.

Children who get everything they ask for seldom succeed in life.

Cowardice will not prolong life.

A toad does not jump around in the daytime, unless something is after its life.

Life is made of two days. One which is sweet and the other is bitter.

Remind the youngster of his next life.

Life will show you what you did not know.

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Most men employ the earlier part of their life to make the other miserable.

The first half of life is spent in longing for the second, the second half in regretting the first.

To enjoy life is worth so much more than it costs.

In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Leadership shortens life.

For the first five years of your son's life treat him as a prince, for the next ten years as a slave, then as a friend for the rest of his life.

Have faith -- God calls forth life even from eggs.

Death is the bride of life.

Even when months and days are long, life is short.

He who wants what God wants of him will lead a free and happy life.

It is precisely the uncertainty of this world that makes life worth living.

Life is a long journey with a heavy bag on its back.

Life is for one generation; a good name is forever.

You will never learn enough looking for only the good things in life; you will always be a pupil.

Life is a shadow and a mist; it passes quickly by, and is no more.

However big the whale may be, the tiny harpoon can rob him of life.

If you don't eat you will die; overeating will shorten your life.

I have no right to rejoice at the death of my enemy when I do not have eternal life myself.

Death does not come free of charge, for it costs us our life.

Who is blind, dumb and deaf will live a peaceful life of a hundred years.

Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.

A good life is the best sermon.

A good life, they say, keeps wrinkles at bay.

Better visit hell in your lifetime than after you're dead.

Life is a gift for which we pay dearly.

Life without a friend is death without a witness.

Memory is life's clock.

Never praise life in front of death, nor the beautiful day in front of night.

To live in fear is a life half-lived.

A life without love is like a year without summer.

Ever since dying came into fashion, life hasn't been safe.

We come and cry and that is life, we cry and go and that is death.

Life is a temporary stop, death is the journey home.

When the father has eaten too much salt in his lifetime, then his son thereafter will have a great thirst.

Where life is exhausted, death comes.

An unkept promise leads to a bad life.

If you start thinking of death, you are no longer sure of life.

Life is the cheapest bargain -- we get it for nothing.

Life is like a game in which God shuffles the cards, the devil deals them and we have to play the trumps.

Man is learning all his life and yet he dies in ignorance.

Life is like a wheel, sometimes at the top, sometimes at the bottom.

Tree that grows crooked will never be straightened - bad habits learned early in life are hard to get rid of later.

Wisdom comes only when you stop looking for it and start living the life the Creator intended for you.

If life gives you a lemon, make a squash out of it.

A dead man is mourned seven days; a fool, his lifetime.

If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

If you want your children to have a peaceful life, let them suffer a little hunger and a little coldness.

The miserly man is like a fattened ox: he will give of his fat only when he has been deprived of his life.

Life cannot be trusted; death can come at any moment.

Life is not a cup to be drained, but a measure to be filled.

Mere life is not a victory; mere death is not a defeat.

To understand life, endure pain.

Honor is more important than life.

A wise man is able to adapt to the surprises of life as water to the vessel it is poured in.

Man is like a palm on the beach; moving with the wind of life.

The golden rule of life is, make a beginning.

If there's bitterness in the heart, sugar in the mouth won't make life sweeter.

A book gives knowledge, but it is life that gives understanding.

Life is a comedy to those who think a tragedy to those who feel.

A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.

There's no life so tiring as one of doing nothing.

Plan your life as though you were going to live forever, but live today as if you were going to die tomorrow.

Life can be understood backwards, but has to be lived forwards.

If a person is fated to drown, he'll lose his life even in a teaspoon of water.

Life is like a boat you move on when you paddle and stay in the same place if not.

Life is like a mirror if you fawn it, it fawns back and if you smile, it smiles.

Life is like riding a bicycle; you don't fall off unless you stop pedaling.

Life is like shopping in a market; when you finish, you go home.

Life is a stairway - some are going up, others are going down.

Only a goat that is tired of life invites a lion to dinner.

Success in life largely depends on how you handle your failures.

The coffin seller wants a long life for himself and a short life for others.

When you ask, you become a fool for a little while and when you don't ask you become a fool for the rest of your life.

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

The best advice I know in life is don't give too much.

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