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Sunday, February 23, 2003
Alanib: Proverbs for living
By Tim R. Alanib
A PROVERB is a short saying in common use that strikingly expresses some obvious truth or familiar experience; adage; maxim.
The following are foreign proverbs for living with its respective topics in relation to everyday life.
* Ambition: If you can't get what you want, want what you can get. (Lebanese)
* Anger: He who restrains his anger overcomes his greatest enemy. (Latin)
If you lose your temper, it is a sign that you have wrong in your side.
(Chinese)
* Change: To change and to improve are two different things. (German)
* Criticism: Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. (Chinese). If a man calls you a donkey, don't worry about it. If two men will call you a donkey, get your saddle. (Yiddish)
* Determination: When there is no way, we will find one or build one. (Roman)
* Diligence: There is no poverty that can overtake diligence. (Japanese)
* Enemies: Just as tall trees are known by their shadows, so are good men known by their enemies. (Chinese)
* Envy/Jealousy: The water is the same on both sides of the boat.
(Finnish) There are many roads to hate, but envy is one of the shortest of them all. (Swedish) Envy shoots at others and wounds itself. (Swedish)
* Experience: Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald. (Chinese)
* Friendliness: One enemy is too many and a hundred friends are too few. (Icelandic)
* Friends: An old friend is better than two new ones. (Russian)
* Future: He who will look forward must look behind. (Gaelic) If you would plant for a year, plant rice; if for 20 years, plant trees; if for a hundred years, grow men. (Chinese)
* Giving: He who gives to me teaches me to give. (Danish)
* Goals/Aims: The main thing is that the main thing always remains the main thing. (German)
* Gossip: Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. (Spanish)
* Gratitude/Thankfulness: Get on your knees and thank God you're on your feet. (Irish)
* Growth: Who is not satisfied with himself will grow; who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things. (Chinese)
* Habits: Habits are first cobwebs, then cables. (Spanish)
* Hope: Things never go so well that one should have no fear nor so ill that one should have no hope. (Danish)
* Hospitality: When there is room in the heart, there is room in the house. (Danish) After three days, both fish and guests begin to smell. (Danish)
* Idleness. He who is busy is bothered by only one devil; he who is lazy is bothered by a thousand. (Spanish)
* Influence: He who lives with wolves will learn to howl. (Italian)
* Insults: The wound of words is worse than the wound of swords. (Arabic)
* Kindness: One kind word can warm up three winter months. (Japanese) A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses. (Chinese)
* Laziness: The lazier a man is, the more he is going to do tomorrow. (Norwegian)
* Learning/Education: Learning is a treasure that accompanies its owner everywhere. (Chinese)
* Life/ Purpose in Life: Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more, and all good things are yours. (Swedish)
* Lying: A good liar needs a good memory. (Arabic)
* Marriage: Marriage is like a castle under siege; those within want to get out, those outside want to get in. (Arabic)
* Mediocrity: Mediocrity is climbing molehills without sweating. (Icelandic)
* Memory: The faintest ink is more lasting than the strongest memory. (Chinese)
* Money: The perpetual saver always live in poverty. (Danish) Money is like sea water. The more you drink, the thirstier you get. (Roman) If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living. (Yiddish)
* Motivation: Don't drive your horse with the whip - use the oat bag. (Russian)
* Old Age: Everyone wants to live long, but no one wants to be called old. (Icelandic)
* Parenting: If you know his father and grandfather, you can trust his son. (Moroccan)
* Peace: God did not create hurry. (Finnish)
* Perseverance: Heroism consists of hanging one minute longer. (Norwegian)
* Poverty: It's no disgrace to be poor, but it can be inconvenient. (Danish) |
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