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He who has studied himself is his own master.

Proverbs and old sayings

You are only master of food that you haven't yet eaten.

Proverbs and old sayings Tibetan about haven, food

Our best masters are those who make us suffer the most.

Proverbs and old sayings Tibetan about suffering

If the master gets drunk it is an honorable drunkenness; if the servant does it is evidence of his mean disposition.

Proverbs and old sayings Tibetan about drunkenness

Fire is never a gentle master.

Proverbs and old sayings about fire, fire brigade

When the master is away, the frogs hop in.

Proverbs and old sayings Ugandan

Better a wise man's servant than an idiot's master.

Proverbs and old sayings Vietnamese about man

The master of the people is their servant.

Proverbs and old sayings Yemenite about people

Not everyone who sits in the seat of honor is master.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish

Be master of mind rather than mastered by mind.

Proverbs and old sayings Zen about mind

Good king wenceslas:

Good King Wenceslas looked out
On the Feast of Stephen,
When the snow lay around about,
Deep and crisp and even;

Brightly shone the moon that night,
Though the frost was cruel,
When a poor man came in sight,...

Carols

Here we come a-wassailing

Here we come a-wassailing among the leaves so green,
Here we come a-wandering so fair to be seen.
Love and joy come to you, and to you your wassail too.
And God bless you and send you a Happy New Year,
And God...

Carols

Sometimes we are the student. Sometimes we are the master. And sometimes we are merely the lesson – Jacalyn Smith

Proverbs and old sayings British about teaching, old, olderness

The passions are like fire and water: good servants but bad masters.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about fire, fire brigade, bad luck, water, bad, americans, good, good luck

When the cook is roasting for the butler, woe to the master's wine-cask.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about wine

At a bridge, a plank, a river, the servant foremost, the master behind.

Proverbs and old sayings French

A slave shows his true character, not while he is enslaved but when he becomes a master.

Proverbs and old sayings about character

A person who chases a chicken is due a fall. The chicken is a master of the dodged escaped.

Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about fall, people

When a once-beautiful piece of cloth has turned into rags, no one remembers that it was woven by Ukwa master weavers.

Proverbs and old sayings Igbo

Let no man be the servant of another, who can be his own master.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about man