English proverbs

The first year let your house to your enemy; the second to your friend; the third live in it yourself.

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden;
if you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Set out wisely at first; custom will make every virtue more easy and pleasant to you than any vice can be.

Worrying is like sitting in a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but it doesn't get you anywhere.

He who lives according to nature will never be poor, and he who lives according to opinion will never be rich.

The camel asking for horns lost also his ears. [In grasping for things we need not, we often lose what we have.]

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures of the world.

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