It is better to start weaving your fishing nets than merely coveting fish at the water.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about water
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It is no good going to the river just wanting to catch a fish; you have to take a net as well.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about good, good luck
Life is like a candle in the wind; like frost on the roof; like the wriggling of the fish in the pan.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about life
Living at a river, one comes to know the nature of the fish therein; Dwelling by a mountain, one learns to recognize the language of the birds thereupon.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about language, nature
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...
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about happiness, help, wealth, day
In the morning be first up, and in the evening last to go to bed, for they that sleep catch no fish.
Proverbs and old sayings English about sleep
He who does not love their national language is worse than a putrid fish.
Proverbs and old sayings about language, love
Different fields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.
Proverbs and old sayings
The seagull thinks it is an act of kindness to give the fish a lift in the air.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about air
He who burns his mouth on the soup will blow on a cold fish dish.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese
Life? That is a candle in the wind; frost upon a roof; the twitching of the fish in a pan.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about life
It is better to go home and make your net than to gaze longingly at the fish in the deep pool.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about home
When you are crossing over a river you might be eaten by crocodiles, but don't let yourself get bitten by the little fish.
Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan
When the last tree has been cut down, the last river has been polluted and the last fish has been caught -- only then do you realize that money can't buy everything.
Proverbs and old sayings about pollution, commerce, money, americans
There is only one thing harder than looking for a dewdrop in the dew, and that is fishing for a clam in the clam chowder.
Proverbs and old sayings about things
If you didn't catch anything when fishing, then a crab is a fish.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian
To ward off the boredom of life, eat snails in May and fish in August.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about boredom, life
Nobel and rich are the Messinans, heads of the kingdom are the Palermitani, the Catanians have a contented heart, and in Cefalu they are rich with fish.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about heads, wealth, heart
It is in vain to cast nets in a river where there are no fish.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish
Friday pretexts for not fasting (meaning pleas of indisposition for not eating fish. )
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about fasting
