634 Proverbs about Read / Page 3
41. 
The acolyte at the gate reads scriptures he has never learned.
42. 
Even though you tread slowly over your rice field it will become muddy.
43. 
A mad bull is not to be tied up with a packthread.
44. 
A lazy tailor finds his thread too long.
45. 
A priest blesses his own bread first.
46. 
He who is outside the door has already a good part of his journey behind him.
47. 
A dictionary can only be read when it is printed.
48. 
An old bachelor compares life with a shirt button that hangs often by a thread.
49. 
If your books are not read, your descendants will be ignorant.
50. 
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
51. 
When you have read a book for the first time, you get to know a friend; read it for a second time and you meet an old friend.
52. 
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
53. 
A cloth is not woven from a single thread.
54. 
A person with a bad name is already half-hanged.
55. 
After three days without reading, talk becomes flavorless.
56. 
Be in readiness for favorable winds.
57. 
Do not anxiously hope for that which is not yet come; do not vainly regret what is already past.
58. 
Get the coffin ready and watch the man mend.
59. 
He that has not bread to spare should not keep a dog.
60. 
If you have two loaves of bread, sell one and buy a lily.
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