534 Proverbs about Life / Page 8
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.
151. The most important thing in life is to be buried well.
152. To be able to curse once a day improves happiness and lengthens life.
153. To have saved one human life is worth more than to build a pagoda with seven stories.
154. Children are the reward of life.
155. His whole life he carried his wife on his back.
156. Consider each day of your life to be the best.
157. A merry heart makes a long life.
158. Bread is the staff of life.
159. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
160. Happy wife, happy life.
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