472 Proverbs about Sure / Page 12
221. The pleasure of finding something is worth more than what you find.
222. 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.
223. If you are up to your knees in pleasure, then you are up to your waist in grief.
224. Justice is better than admiration If you are going to kill, then kill an elephant; if you are going to steal make sure it's a treasure.
225. Learning is a treasure no thief can touch.
226. Never use a dwarf to measure the depth of the water.
227. Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.
228. Measure twice, cut once.
229. Do not measure others by your own yardstick.
230. Ice in spring is treacherous; new friendships are seldom sure.
231. If you don't have a hundred rubles, make sure you have a hundred friends.
232. Peace and harmony is great treasure.
233. Every peasant is proud of the pond in his village because from it he measures the sea.
234. If you will not hear reason, she will surely rap your knuckles.
235. A lucky man can stumble upon a treasure while an unlucky one can't even find a mushroom.
236. Measure thy cloth ten times, thou canst cut it but once.
237. Bygone troubles are a pleasure to talk about.
238. Make sure to send a lazy man for the Angel of Death.
239. Measure the corn of others with your own bushel.
240. You can't measure the whole world with your own yardstick.
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