143 Proverbs about Years / Page 3
41. If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people.
42. If you want a crop for one year, grow grain; if you want a crop for ten years, grow a tree; if you want a crop for a hundred years, grow men.
43. It takes a tree ten years to mature; it takes a man one hundred years to form.
44. To cultivate trees, you need 10 years. To cultivate people, you need 100 years.
45. One step in the wrong direction will cause you a thousand years of regret.
46. It takes three years to learn to be a man of integrity; it only takes three days to degrade.
47. A smile makes you ten years younger.
48. Ten years of oblivion in school may bring you fame overnight.
49. A threatened man lives seven years.
50. I wish that he would sink as deep in the ground as a hare can run in ten years.
51. No mad dog runs seven years.
52. Horns an' grey hair dinna aye come o' years.
53. Other years other hairs.
54. What breaks in a moment may take years to mend.
55. All be the same in a hundred years.
56. A fool can ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.
57. A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.
58. Keep a thing seven years and you will always find a use for it.
59. You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.
60. It will be all the same in a hundred years.
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