Proverbs from around the world:

• “Opportunities come but do not linger.” — Nepalese
• “If you buy what you don’t need, you steal from yourself.” — Swedish
• “Happy nations have no history.” — Belgian
• “An old error has more friends than a new truth.” — Danish
• “Nothing is difficult if you’re used to it.” — Indonesian
• “The one being carried does not realize how far away the town is.” — Nigerian
• “Men make laws; women make morals.” — French
• “If you are afraid of something, you give it power over you.” — Moroccan
• “You can’t sew buttons on your neighbor’s mouth.” — Russian
• “Do good and forget it; do ill and remember it.” — Maltese
• “Not to know is bad, not to want to know is worse.” — Gambian
• “There are a thousand roads to every wrong.” — Polish
• “Virtue is not knowing but doing.” — Japanese
• “People show their character by what they laugh at.” — German
• “That which is a sin in others is a virtue in ourselves.” — Peruvian
• “The new boat will find the old stones.” — Estonian
• “The talkers aren’t strong; the strong don’t talk.” — Burmese
• “Pride and dignity would belong to women if only men would leave them alone.” — Egyptian