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Proverbs Tell How to Succeed in Life
The world has been changing all the time.
Also, everything on it has been changing together including way of people’s life.
Everyone may know about proverbs because proverbs are involved with their live implicitly.
Today we will present more popular proverbs. A proverb is well-known in real
life because of saying expression about common truth and belief. Sometimes,
proverbs are used to give good advice how to live happily.
More and more people usually sent favorite
proverbs about taking care of healthy such as: One is an apple a day keeps the
doctor away. It means that you should take care of yourself by eating beneficial
food and exercise enough, you don’t see a doctor. In addition, there are
several proverbs about birds like giving good advice for someone. “The early
bird catches the worm.” It means a person who get ups early, do something quickly
will get good chance before. The other proverb; a bird in the hand is worth
than two in the bush. It means you shouldn’t lose something you have for
seeking something isn’t untraceable.
Another proverb, “Do not count your chickens
before they are hatched” It means you should think carefully about what happens
in the future. “Do not put all your eggs in one basket.” This means you should
not put all of thing together in one place because you can lose everything at
one time. Another proverb says “a fool and his money are soon parted.” It means
someone who acts foolishly with money will lose it. Do you see about each proverb?
All proverbs are said in previous may have much benefit.
Finally,
there is one of interesting proverbs “People who live in glass houses should
not throw stones.” It means you shouldn’t criticize the others if you are not perfect.
Proverbs are written from what happen in real life that everyone may know by themselves.
Also, Your live may have something wrong or right as some proverbs that I tell you
all above. However, when you can find what you are wrong, you can change the way
of your life by using good proverbs as a guideline. I am a person who uses some
proverbs for learning new thing, or spending life better. Did you use proverbs
to guide your live? How?
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Proverbs Tell How to Succeed in Life
Now, the VOA Special English program Words and Their Stories.
Today we explain more popular proverbs. A
proverb is a short, well known saying that expresses a common truth or belief.
Proverbs are popular around the world.
Many listeners have sent us their favorite
proverbs. They give advice about how to live.
We
begin with two popular proverbs about staying healthy by eating good food: One
is an apple a day keeps the doctor away. Another is you are what you eat.
Several proverbs about birds also give
advice. You may have heard this one: The early bird catches the worm. This
means a person who gets up early, or acts quickly, has the best chance of
success.
Another famous proverb is a bird in the
hand is worth two in the bush. This means you should not risk losing something
you have by seeking something that is not guaranteed.
Here is another piece of advice: Do not
count your chickens before they are hatched. In other words, you should not
think too much about some future event before it really happens.
Another proverb warns do not put all your
eggs in one basket. This means you should not put all of your resources together
in one place because you could risk losing everything at one time. Many
Americans learned this the hard way by investing all their money in stock
shares, which then lost value.
Another
proverb says a fool and his money are soon parted. This means someone who acts
unwisely with money will lose it.
Here is more advice: If at first you don’t
succeed, try, try again. Also, never put off until tomorrow what you can do
today.
You might learn that haste makes waste if
you do something so fast, resulting in mistakes. Most people would agree with
this proverb: honesty is the best policy.
Yet another proverb advises us not to be
concerned about something bad that you cannot change. It says there is no use
crying over spilled milk.
Do you agree with the proverb that children
should be seen and not heard?
Maybe
you have told your children that hard work never hurt anyone. But other people
say that all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. They believe it is not
wise to spend all your time working and never having fun.
Finally, here is one of our favorite
proverbs: People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. This means
you should not criticize other people unless you are perfect yourself.
This VOA Special English program was written by Shelley
Gollust. I'm Faith Lapidus.
Proverbs Tell How to Succeed in Life
Vocabularies
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Pronunciation
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Meaning
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Guaranteed (v)
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ˌgærənˈtɪd
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รับประกัน
Secured by writing agreement
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Fool (n)
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fu:l
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คนโง่
used to say that something is very
easy to do
Ex: Any fool could tell she was lying.
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Criticize (v)
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ˈkrɪtɪsaɪz
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วิภาควิจารณ์
to say that you disapprove of someone or something
Ex: The decision was criticized by environmental groups.
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Dull (adj.)
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dʊl
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น่าเบื่อ, โง่
not interesting or exciting
Ex: The countryside was flat, dull and uninteresting.
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