Never take the thatch off your own house to buy slates for a neighbor’s.
-Irish proverb
Tag: proverb
“…wondrous days, surprising days” #35
Misfortune does not always come to injury.
-Italain proverb
“…wondrous days, surprising days” #49
Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.
-Swedish proverb
“Ideas won’t keep…” #23
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
-Swedish proverb
“Ideas won’t keep…” #24
Habits are first cobwebs, then cables.
-Spanish proverb
Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.
-Elbert Hubbard
“Ideas won’t keep…” #33
Don’t climb a tree to look for fish.
-Chinese proverb
Don’t fish for strawberries at the bottom of the sea.
Anonymous
Whether we want love, a kind word, an honest answer, help, or even a special tool, we should look for it in likely places. If we look in unlikely places, we waste a lot of time and just end up, hurt and disappointed, without finding what we want.
Have you ever “climbed a tree to look for fish”? What did you learn? Where will you look next time?
“Ideas won’t keep…” #36
Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can’t bring down.
-Olive Schreiner
Blow not against the hurricane.
-Proverb