374 Proverbs about World / Page 2
21. One half the world knows not how the other half lives.
22. One half the world laughs at the other.
23. Six things have no business in the world: a fighting priest, a coward knight, a covetous judge, a stinking barber, a soft-hearted mother, and an itchy baker.
24. The gown is hers that wears it; and the world is his who enjoys it.
25. The sun shines for all the world.
26. He that has lost his credit is dead to the world.
27. Ingratitude is the world's reward.
28. One half of the world does not know how the other half lives.
29. One half the world laughs at the other half.
30. So it goes in the world: one has the purse, the other has the gold.
31. Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be.
32. The world likes to have night-owls, that it may have matter for wonder.
33. There are only two good women in the world; the one is dead, the other not to be found.
34. Were I a hatter, men would come into the world without heads.
35. Whom fortune favours, the world favours.
36. Once out of the throat it spreads over the world.
37. If you come up in this world, be sure not to go down in the next.
38. He is the world's master who despises it, its slave who prizes it.
39. He that will not strive in this world should not have come into it.
40. I being satisfied, the world is satisfied.
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