139 Proverbs about Wish / Page 4
61. Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.
62. After the act wishing is in vain.
63. Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak.
64. He who wishes to live at Rome must not quarrel with the pope.
65. He who wishes to make a golden door drives a nail into it every day.
66. If wishes were true, shepherds would be kings.
67. If wishes would bide, beggars would ride.
68. Incense intoxicates and every one wishes for it.
69. Who wishes to travel far spares his steed.
70. Wishes never filled the bag.
71. Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done, and fools what they wish to do.
72. Who cares well for cats will marry as happily as he or she could ever wish.
73. If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
74. Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
75. If you wish to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water.
76. He who does not wish for little things does not deserve big things.
77. Your dog wishes you a long life.
78. A person's worst enemy can't wish on him what he can think up himself.
79. What a man thinks up for himself, his worst enemy couldn't wish for him.
80. If things are not as you wish, wish them as they are.
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