Proverbs and Quotes about Life and Life Situations

A bus is a vehicle that runs twice as fast when you are after it as when you are in it.

A day of sorrow is longer than a month of joy.

A good thing is all the sweeter when won with pain.

A handsome shoe often pinches the foot.

A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones.

A man too careful of danger lives in continual torment.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

A rotten apple spoils the barrel.

A swallow does not make the summer.

An open door may tempt a saint.

As one door closes, another always opens.

As you go through life, make this your goal, watch the doughnut and not the hole.

Better die with honor than live with shame

Bread is the staff of life

Careless talk costs lives

Do right and fear no man.

Easy come, easy go.

Every step of life is a risk

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Fortune favours the brave.

Fresh pork and new wine kill a man before his time.

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He Lives Long Who Lives Well

He that lives too fast, goes to his grave too soon.

He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day.

He who guards his lips guards his life, but he who speaks rashly will come to ruin

He who laughs last, laughs longest.

He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword

Home is where the heart is.

Hope for the best and prepare for the worst.

If life deals you lemons, make lemonade.

In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Into every life a little rain must fall.

It never rains but it pours.

Its a dogs life.

Keep your powder dry. Valentine Blacker, 1834 from Oliver's Advice

Leave tomorrow till tomorrow.

Life begins at forty.

Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.

Life is beautiful.

Life is just a bowl of cherries.

Life is like a box of chocolates, sometimes hard, sometimes soft.

Life is like a drawing pin - sharp at one end, and flat at the other.

Life is like a good book, the more you get into it the more it makes sense

Life is like a horse race there are winners and losers.

Life is not all beer and skittles

Life is one long catwalk

Life is what you make it.

Lifes trials may be hard to bear, but patience can outlive them.

Live and let live

Live for today for tomorrow never comes.

Live to the point of tears.

Loving life is living life to the fullest.

Man cannot live on bread alone.

Manners maketh the man.

No man is worse for knowing the worst of himself.

Only the good die young.

People who live in glass houses should not throw stones

So long as you do your best in life, whatever happens will be for the best

The best things in life are free

The longer you live the more you see.

The meek shall inherit the earth.

The receiver is as bad as the thief.

The tongue that brings healing is a tree of life, but a deceitful tongue crushes the spirit

The warrior lives an honorable life even in poverty..

To wait and be patient soothes many a pang.

Up and down like a fiddler's elbow.

Variety is the spice of life.

Variety is the spice of life. William Cowper, English poet (1731–1800)

We cannot erase the sad records from our past.

What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.

While there is life there is hope.

You can't live on bread alone.