Proverbs
You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from nesting in your hair.
You cannot have a life without sadness, but you don't have to wallow in sadness.
Easy come, easy go.
It's as easy to make money as to lose it. If you make money easily, you are more likely to spend it quickly. (Don't worry too much about money.)
Cut your coat according to your cloth.
Do not spend money you don't have. Do not have expensive ambitions if you have only little money.
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link.
If a part of something is weak, then the whole thing is weak.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Being successful in something gives you the confidence to make you successful in the next thing you try.
You can't win them all.
You cannot expect to always be successful.
A miss is as good as a mile.
A miss is a miss. Failure is failure. (It doesn't make any difference whether you missed by a little or missed by a lot.)
Third time lucky.
This proverb expresses the superstition that we will have success on our third attempt at something.
He who would wish to thrive must let spiders run alive.
If you want to have a happy and healthy life, do not kill spiders.
Don't wash your dirty linen in public.
Do not talk about family problems with outsiders.
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