143 Proverbs about Years / Page 6
101. One year's seeding makes seven years weeding.
102. The first hundred years are the hardest.
103. Years know more than books.
104. A child and a fool imagine twenty shillings and twenty years can never be spent.
105. There's no evil that lasts a hundred years, nor a body that can endure it.
106. It is better to live for one day as a tiger than to live for a thousand years as a sheep.
107. Keep a thing seven years and you'll find a use for it.
108. Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred.
109. There is no flower that lasts ten days and no might lasts ten years.
110. Three years will eradicate even murderous thoughts.
111. Wood may remain ten years in the water, but it will never become a crocodile.
112. Who shears the sheep's head will live a couple of days, who shears its tail will live a hundred years.
113. One year ages the old, two years grow a child.
114. That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the brow.
115. Even light takes a decade to travel ten light-years.
116. Thus years glide by.
117. You should know a man seven years before you stir his fire.
118. After taking ninety-nine years to climb a stairway, the tortoise falls and says there is a curse on haste.
119. Years know more than books.
120. It will be all one a thousand years hence.
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