Proverbs
Art is long, life is short.
Good art lasts more than a single lifetime. (It takes more than a lifetime to become skilled in painting, music etc.)
Life is sweet.
It's good to be alive.
Life means strife.
No person can live without problems or unpleasantness.
Every day of thy life is a leaf in thy history.
You are writing your own history book - one day after the next.
If ifs and ans were pots and pans, there'd be no trade for tinkers.
It's human nature to wish things were different from how they are. (We all have dreams, but few of them come true.)
Pigs might fly.
This is said to someone who has an impossible dream or wish.
Variety is the spice of life.
To make our lives interesting and worth living we need to do lots of different things.
Better the devil you know.
You may be having problems but changing something might make them worse.
Don't change horses in midstream.
If you have started something one way, do not change to a different way. This will only bring problems.
A new broom sweeps clean.
A new boss (or a new method of doing something) clears away all the old problems.
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