Ancient Indian Proverb

"Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children."

leaf pile

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"With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown." Chinese proverb.

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“A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.”
~~ Chinese Proverbs


Same as a family pet securing the family children.

"no labor" day

To labor is to pray!  St Benedict

Tranquility

"The fruit of silence is tranquility." Arabian proverb

Peace

“The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed during war.”
--Chinese Proverb quotes

To be happy

One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb

Chinese Proverb

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Determination

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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
-- Winston Churchill

“Little by little one walks far”
-- Peruvian Proverb

“Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.”
-- Shakespeare

A wise man

“For every wise man there is one still wiser.”
~ Turkish Proverb
“There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.”
~ William Shakespeare
“A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.”
~ Confucius

Today's African Proverb

“When the great lord walks by, the wise peasant bows deeply and passes wind silently”

Proverbs :10

A wise son brings joy to his father,
    but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

marraige

"There are three things that are too amazing for me, four that I do not understand:  the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship on the high seas, and the way of a man with a maiden.

~~Proverbs


"Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives."

~~ Shakespeare


“Do not marry only for a person's looks, for their beauty might become a cause of moral decline. Do not marry for the sake of wealth, as this may become a source of sin. Marry rather on the grounds of religious devotion.”

~~ Muslim saying 


"If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else."

~~Chinese quote


"Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious. Both are  disappointed."

~~ Oscar Wilde

quotes

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. -- English Proverb

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. -- Mark Twain

In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity. -- Albert Einstein

proverb

There is more certainty in the past then in the future.

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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.
Chinese Proverb

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“Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.”
~~Turkish Proverb

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Green Christmas, white Easter ~
German Proverb

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~ He who wants Lent to seem short should contract a debt to be repaid at Easter ~
Italian Proverb

repentance

“Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking”
~~Moorish Proverb