日常生活

1. 饥饿与食欲

饥饿与食欲

hunger is the best sauce · hunger drives the wolf out of the wood · a hungry belly has no ears · a growing youth has a wolf in his belly

2. 健康与幸福

健康与幸福

nothing is so good for the inside of a man as the outside of a horse · a bow long bent grows weak · a change is as good as a rest · a creaking door hangs longest

3. 健康与卫生

健康与卫生

an onion a day keeps everyone away · cleanliness is next to godliness · a good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book · an apple a day keeps the doctor away

4. 习惯与日常

习惯与日常

old habits die hard · bad habits die hard · habit is second nature · dog returns to its vomit

5. Death

art is long and life is short · ashes to ashes · dead men bite · death is the great leveler

6. Age

a man is as old as he feels himself to be · an old man is twice a child · early ripe early rotten · every man is a fool or physician by forty

7. Nature

nature abhors a vacuum · a dry march a wet april and a cool may fill barn and cellar and bring much hay · not cast a clout until may be out · if in february there be no rain it is neither good for hey nor grain