List of Proverbs about Life and Sayings
Life Proverb of the Day
Smoke, a dripping roof, and a scolding wife, are enough to drive a man out of his life.
- Spanish Life Proverbs
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African Proverbs About Life |
Life is like riding a bicycle; you don't fall off unless you stop pedalling. |
Life is like shopping in a market; when you finish, you go home. |
Life is like a mirror if you fawn it, it fawns back and if you smile, it smiles. African Proverbs About Life |
Life is vanity. African Proverbs About Life |
Life is a teacher. African Proverbs About Life |
Life without battle is life without victory. African Proverbs About Life |
Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards. African Proverbs About Life |
Life is like a boat you move on when you paddle and stay in the same place if not. African Proverbs About Life |
Life is your ability to breath out every time you breathe in. African Proverbs About Life |
Life is the beginning of death. African Proverbs About Life |
Life is what you make it. African Proverbs About Life |
There are many colourful flowers on the path of life, but the prettiest have the sharpest thorns. African Proverbs About Life |
Generally with life you will be betrayed by close relatives. African Proverbs About Life |
The downfall of a man is not the end of his life. African Proverbs About Life |
Give a man a fish and he won't starve for a day. Teach a man how to fish and he won't starve for his entire life. African Proverbs About Life |
Where there is life there is hope. African Proverbs About Life |
It's the tortoise's shell, ugly and hard that protects its life long journey on earth. African Proverbs About Life |
American Proverbs about Life |
Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. |
Life is not a cup to be drained, but a measure to be filled. American Proverbs about Life |
A wise man's day is worth a fool's life. American Proverbs about Life |
My son's my son till he gets him a wife; my daughter's my daughter all of her life. American Proverbs about Life |
Variety is the spice of life. American Proverbs about Life |
Live your own life, for you die your own death. American Proverbs about Life |
By the yard, life is hard. By the inch, it's a cinch. |
It takes half your life to learn who your friends are and the other half to keep them. |
Cheerfulness, helpfulness and honesty are fine, good companions to take with you through life. |
Chinese Proverbs About Life |
Life can never give security, it can only promise opportunity. |
Life is a dream walking, death is going home. Chinese Proverbs About Life |
Life isn't all beer and skittles. Chinese Proverbs About Life |
Life unfolds on a sheet called time and once finished is gone forever. Chinese Proverbs About Life |
Life is like a candle in the wind; like frost on the roof; like the wriggling of the fish in the pan. Chinese Proverbs About Life |
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life. Chinese Proverbs About Life |
Four things come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity. Chinese Proverbs About Life |
When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people. Chinese Proverbs About Life |
If you want your children to have a peaceful life, let them suffer a little hunger and a little coldness. Chinese Proverbs About Life |
A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every passerby leaves a mark. Chinese Proverbs |
All of life is a dream walking, all of death is a going home. Chinese Proverbs About Life |
One moment of patience may ward off a great disaster; one moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. Chinese Proverbs |
If life is fulfilled we go away with empty hands. Chinese Proverbs About Life |
The happiest life ends before death. Chinese Proverbs About Life |
Who teaches me for a day is my father for a lifetime. Chinese Proverbs About Life |
To tell only half the truth is to give life to a new lie. |
People fool themselves. They pray for a long life but fear old age. |
Once bitten by a snake, he is scared all his life at the mere sight of a rope. |
Respect for one's parents is the highest duty of civil life. |
Man fools himself. He prays for a long life, and he fears an old age. |
A smile will gain you ten more years of life. |
One moment's error becomes a lifetime of sadness. |
Our enemies teach us life's most valuable lesson. |
A life with love is happy; a life for love is foolish. |
To extend your life by a year, take one less bite each meal. |
Respect for ones parents is the highest duty of civil life. |
The most important thing in life is to be buried well. |
The court official in one life has seven rebirths as a beggar. |
One's shadow grows larger than life when admired by the light of the moon. |
The life of an old man can be compared with the flame of a candle in a drought. |
A wise man is able to adapt to the surprises of life as water to the decanter it is poured in. |
To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep. |
He who thinks too much about every step he takes will stay on one leg all his life. |
Once bitten by a snake, one is scared all his life at the mere sight of a rope. |
The error of one moment becomes the sorrow of a whole life. |
An old bachelor compares life with a shirt button that hangs often by a thread. |
Don't ask in this life for the three most difficult things: good sons, long life and a long beard. |
He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg. |
He who does not regularly put on clean socks will never get used to circus life. |
To have saved one human life is worth more than to build a pagoda with seven stories. |
A moment of patience can prevent a great disaster and a moment of impatience can ruin a whole life. |
It is better to save your innocence at the cost of your honor, than to save your country at the cost of your life. |
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. |
Sometimes life can be as bitter as dragon tears. But whether dragon tears are bitter or sweat depends entirely on how each man perceives them. |
English Proverbs About Life |
Life liveth not in living, but in liking. |
Life is just a bowl of cherries. English Proverbs About Life |
Life and misery began together. English Proverbs About Life |
Life begins at forty. English Proverbs About Life |
Life's a bleach and then you dye. English Proverbs About Life |
Life's a bitch and then you marry one. English Proverbs About Life |
Happy wife, happy life. English Proverbs About Life |
The best things in life are free. |
A merry heart makes a long life. |
Variety is the spice of life. |
Bread is the staff of life. |
Hope is life. |
Favour will surely perish as life. |
While there's life, there's hope. |
It's the little things in life that count. |
Bread is the staff of life, but beer's life itself. English Proverbs About Life |
A life of leisure, and a life of laziness, are two things. |
Two things prolong your life: A quiet heart and a loving wife. |
Always to court and never to wed is the happiest life that ever was led. English Proverbs About Life |
A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter's a daughter the rest of your life. English Proverbs About Life |
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. |
If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; if you want to be happy for life, plant a tree. |
There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it. |
French Proverbs About Life |
Life is like an onion, which one peels crying. |
Life is made up of tomorrows. French Proverbs About Life |
Life is half spent before one knows what life is. French Proverbs About Life |
Life is a dung pie from which you take a bite every day. French Proverbs About Life |
A pig's life, short and sweet. |
We must learn from life how to suffer it. |
A merry life forgets father and mother. |
Take away my good name, take away my life. |
To enjoy life is worth so much more than it costs. |
A handful of good life is better than seven barrels of learning. |
He who marries on a rainy day will be happy for the rest of his life. |
Most men employ the earlier part of their life to make the other miserable. |
He, who more than he is worth doth spend, E'en makes a rope, his life to end. |
Smoke, floods, and a troublesome wife, are enough to drive a man out of his life. |
The first half of life is spent in longing for the second, the second half in regretting the first. |
Indian Proverbs about Life |
Life is like the flame of a lamp; it needs a little oil now and then. Indian Proverbs about Life |
Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it. Indian Proverbs about Life |
Life is not a continuum of pleasant choices, but of inevitable problems that call for strength, determination, and hard work. Indian Proverbs about Life |
Fear is the fever of life. Indian Proverbs about Life |
Nonviolence is the supreme law of life. Indian Proverbs about Life |
Ignorance is the peace of life. Indian Proverbs about Life |
As the spokes of a wheel are attached to the hub, so all things are attached to 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. |
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. |
Riches are treasured up against the day of danger ; but to save life every thing is to be sacrificed. If life be preserved, all is safe; if life be lost, all is lost. |
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. |
Japanese Proverbs About Life |
Life is a candle before the wind. Japanese Proverbs About Life |
Life's not all beer and skittles. Japanese Proverbs About Life |
Life is the source of all things. Japanese Proverbs About Life |
Life is for one generation; a good name is forever. Japanese Proverbs About Life |
Life is a long journey with a heavy bag on its back. |
Life without endeavor is like entering a jewel-mine and coming out with empty hands. Japanese Proverbs About Life |
Life? That is a candle in the wind; frost upon a roof; the twitching of the fish in a pan. Japanese Proverbs About Life |
Only God knows one's term of life. |
Even when months and days are long, life is short. Japanese Proverbs |
Plan your life at New Year's eve, your day at dawn. |
A beautiful woman is like an axe in one's life. |
It is the same life whether we spend it crying or laughing. |
It is one life, whether we spend it in laughing or in weeping. |
It is precisely the uncertainty of this world that makes life worth living. |
Beat your wife on the wedding day, and your married life will be happy. |
He who wants what God wants of him will lead a free and happy life. |
One moment of intense happiness prolongs life by a thousand years. |
Some people like to make of life a garden, and to walk only within its paths. |
You should climb Mount Fujiyama once in your life. Climb it twice and you're a fool. |
My son is my son till he gets him a wife, but my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life. |
You will never learn enough looking for only the good things in life; you will always be a pupil. |
Latin Proverbs about Life |
The best things in life are free. Latin Proverbs about Life |
Into every life a little rain must fall. Latin Proverbs about Life |
Seek not the luxuries of life lest you reap sorrow. Latin Proverbs about Life |
He is unworthy of life who gives no life to another. Latin Proverbs about Life |
Those who are nourished by hope live ever in suspense, and enjoy not life. Latin Proverbs about Life |
While life lasts let us enjoy it. |
A hard life but a healthy one. |
While there is life there is hope. |
To know nothing is the happiest life. |
Once in each man's life fortune smiles. |
Marry a person in your own rank in life. |
Man's life is a sojourn in a strange land. |
Science is unlimited in its course; life is short. |
Whose life is as lightning, his words are as thunder. |
He took care to enjoy himself as long as life lasted. |
The good fortunes of life fall to the lot even of the base. |
A precipice in front of you, and wolves behind you; that is life. |
No man is contented with his lot in this life. |
An industrious life is the best security for food in old age. |
He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to all the contingencies of life; but the fool contends, and is struggling, like a swimmer, against the stream. |
Man's life's a vapor, and full of woes; he cuts a caper, and down he goes. |
How many accidents keep human life a rolling. |
Married life without children is as the day deprived of the sun's rays. |
When a man's mode of life is contemptible, it follows that his preaching is treated with contempt. |
He spends the happiest life who knows nothing. |
Russian Proverbs about Life |
Life is short, but there's a lot to be done. |
Living life is not like just crossing a field. |
Living life is not like crossing a meadow. |
Your dog wishes you a long life. |
A good citizen owes his life to his country. |
A day is long, but a lifetime is short. |
Living your life is not like crossing a meadow. |
The nights are short for him who married late in life. |
Death does not come free of charge, for it costs us our life. |
Plan your life as though you were going to live forever, but live today as if you were going to die tomorrow. |
Spanish Proverbs about Life |
Life is a gift for which we pay dearly. Spanish Life Proverbs |
Life without a friend is death without a witness. Spanish Life Proverbs |
Long life to the conqueror. |
A good life is the best sermon. |
He who fears death cannot enjoy life. |
A good life defers wrinkles. |
Memory is life's clock. |
A good life, they say, keeps wrinkles at bay. |
To live in fear is a life half-lived. |
My life and soul, but not my pack-saddle. |
Friendless in life, friendless in death. |
He who lives a long life must pass through much evil. |
No man is quick enough to enjoy life to the full. |
Better visit hell in your lifetime than after you're dead. |
Who is always prying into other men's affairs, leads a dangerous life. |
Never praise life in front of death, nor the beautiful day in front of night. |
Smoke, a dripping roof, and a scolding wife, are enough to drive a man out of his life.* |
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