188 Finnish Proverbs / Page 9
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Time goes on while life runs out.162.
To an optimist every weed is a flower; to a pessimist every flower is a weed.163.
To be in love is to feel the sun from both sides.164.
Two are holy: a church and a sauna.165.
Two do not think the same thoughts together.166.
War does not determine who is right, only who is remaining.167.
Water is the oldest medicine.168.
Water runs a whole mile downstream easier than an inch upstream.169.
Wet your finger in tar and soon it is all over you.170.
What adds to knowledge, adds to pain.171.
When a man remembers the land, the land remembers him.172.
When something has been denied of you, you can still do it once.173.
Who reaches for the spruce, falls down onto the juniper.174.
Who stands by the door of his house is not yet gone away.175.
Whose bread you eat, his songs you'll sing.176.
Wise in the morning is wiser in the evening.177.
With a walking-stick you reach many lands; you reach many more with words.178.
Work doesn't scare him, but he could lay down near it and sleep.179.
Work earns a living but trade makes you rich.180.
Works like the train toilet.