Famous Proverbs
534 Proverbs about Life / Page 15
141. 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.