The Routledge Book of World Proverbs
A handful of good life is better than seven barrels of learning. (French)
A hard life but a healthy one. (Roman)
A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age. (Roman)
A life without a purpose is a rambling one. (Roman)
A long life has many shames. (Japanese)
A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough. (Poor Richard)
A man is lent, not given, to life. (Roman)
A man’s life is evaluated only after the coffin is closed. (Korean)
A man’s life is twenty years coming, twenty years good, twenty years declining, and twenty years useless. (Irish)
A precipice in front of you, and wolves behind you – that is life. (Roman)
As length of life is denied to us, we should at least do something to show that we have lived. (Roman)
As we live, so we learn. (Yiddish)
Be happy while you’re living, for you’re a long time dead. (Scottish)
Before one knows his life, it is already half spent. (German)
Better to lose a minute in your life than your life in a minute. (Spanish)
By the yard, life is hard; by the inch, it’s a cinch. (American)
Children and fools have merry lives. (French)
Every day of your life is a page of your history. (Arabian)
Everyone’s life is dark to himself. (Roman)
From the cradle to the tomb, not all gladness, not all gloom. (Dutch)
Good or bad we must all live. (Italian)
He by whom another does not live does not deserve to live. (Roman)
He is master of another man’s life who is indifferent to his own. (Italian)
He is unworthy of life who gives no life to another. (Roman)
He knows enough who knows how to live and keep his own counsel. (French)
He lives long who lives well. (German)
He lives twice who lives well. (Roman)
He lives well who lives industriously. (Roman)
He lives well who lives peacefully. (Roman)
He that at twenty is not, at thirty knows not, and at forty has not, will never be, nor ever know, nor ever have. (Italian)
He who lives a long life must pass through much evil. (Spanish)
Human life is as the morning dew. (Japanese)
If thou wouldst live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten Life. (Poor Richard)
It is a misery to be born, a punishment to live, and a trouble to die. (Roman)
It is one life, whether we spend it laughing or weeping. (Japanese)
It’s the little things in life that count. (Dutch)
Life begins at forty. (Danish)
Life doesn’t end: it goes on and on. (Unknown)
Life hangs by a thread. (Roman)
Life has its ups and downs. (Unknown)
Life is a dream, but don’t wake me. (Yiddish)
Life is a road with a lot of signs. (Jamaican)
Life is but a bubble. (Greek)
Life is but a short span. (Unknown)
Life is but an empty dream. (Unknown)
Life is changeable. (Roman)
Life is full of uncertainties. (Unknown)
Life is given to us to be used; it is a loan without interest, and we have no date fixed for repayment. (Roman)
Life is half spent before one knows what life is. (French)
Life is like a passage. (Chinese)
Life is like licking honey from a thorn. (Hungarian)
Life is like this: sometimes sun, sometimes rain. (Fijian)
Life is not a series of pleasant choices, but of problems that call for strength, determination, and hard work. (Indian)
Life is not mere living but the enjoyment of health. (Roman)
Life is short but sweet. (American)
Life is short; the road is long; hurry. (American)
Life is sweet. (Irish)
Life is the greatest bargain: we get it for nothing. (Yiddish)
Life is what you make of it. (German)
Life is worth more than gold. (Jamaican)
Life isn’t all beer and skittles. (German)
Life itself is short but evils make it longer. (Roman)
Life with fools consists in drinking; with the wise man living’s thinking. (Poor Richard)
Life without effort is like entering a jewel-mine and coming out with empty hands. (Japanese)
Life, if you know how to use it, is long enough. (Roman)
Life’s a bitch, then you die. (American)
Life’s a gamble: you win or lose. (Unknown)
Life’s too short, to worry about life. (the Editor)
Like a brook, life flows away. (Roman)
Love all life. (Chinese)
Man’s life is a glittering bubble. (Chinese)
Man’s life is a sojourn in a strange land. (Roman)
No man is quick enough to enjoy life to the full. (Spanish)
No matter what happens, life will continue. (Mexican)
Nothing in life is free. (American)
Nothing in life is permanent. (Roman)
Our floating life is like a dream. (Korean)
Our life is like a flame flickering in the wind. (Korean)
Our transient life is like a dream. (Japanese)
Remain hidden in life. (Greek)
The life of a man vanishes like the morning dew. (Japanese)
The part of life which we really live is very short. (Roman)
The simple things in life are best. (American)
To know nothing at all is the happiest life. (Roman)
When the life of a man is at stake, no delay that is afforded can be too long. (Roman)
While life lasts let us enjoy it. (Roman)
While we live, let us live. (German)
You live a true life if you make it your care to be what you seem. (Roman)
You must take life as it happens, but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it. (German)
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