528 Proverbs about Things / Page 9

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Things are not as they are, but as they are regarded.

163.

Three things drive a man out of doors: smoke, dropping water, and a shrew.

164.

To expect what never comes, to lie in bed and not sleep, to serve well and not be advanced, are three things to die of.

165.

Moderation in all things.

166.

Poverty wants many things, and avarice all.

167.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

168.

He who begins many things, finishes but few.

169.

Those who begin many things finish but a few.

170.

Things never go so well that someone should have no fear, nor so bad that someone should have no hope.

171.

He who despises small things seldom grows rich.

172.

New things are most looked at.

173.

Smoke, rain, and a scolding wife, are three bad things in a house.

174.

There are three things from which no good can be got without a beating: a walnut-tree, a donkey, and a shrew.

175.

To know the law and do the right are two things.

176.

Need teaches things unlawful.

177.

Three things that can't be taught: generosity, poetry and a singing voice.

178.

A thorn, a hound's tooth, a fool's word: these are the three sharpest things.

179.

Three things you cannot comprehend: the mind of a woman, the working of the bees, and the ebb and flow of the tide.

180.

When all things spoke the potato said, 'set me warm, dig me warm, eat me warm, that's all i want.'