Plant Proverbs - page 2

When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people. (Chinese Proverb)
Plant the crab-tree where you will it will never bear pippins. View proverb
Chinese Proverb
If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people. View proverb
Chinese Proverb
If you plant melons, you get melons; if you plant beans, you get beans. View proverb
Chinese Proverb
The plant God favors will grow even without rain. View proverb
African Proverb
When you plant a yam it produces another yam. View proverb
African Proverb
If you want to sit under a shade in your old age plant a tree now. View proverb
African Proverb
Eating what you plant is better than begging for leftovers. View proverb
African Proverb
Make a garden or plant, and a man is happy for life. View proverb
American Proverb
Confidence is a plant of slow growth. View proverb
American Proverb
They planted so we ate, and we plant so they would eat. (Arabic Proverb)
Our parents planted so we ate, and we plant for our children to eat. View proverb
Arabic Proverb
Love's plant must be watered with tears, and tended with care. View proverb
Danish Proverb
Patience is a bitter plant, but it has sweet fruit. View proverb
German Proverb
Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs. View proverb
Portuguese Proverb
If you would be happy for a week take a wife; if you would be happy for a month kill a pig; but if you would be happy all your life plant a garden. View proverb
Portuguese Proverb
It is not spring until you can plant your foot upon twelve daisies. View proverb
Italian Proverb
If hunger forces a farmer in a particular year to eat both his yam tubers and the seed-yams, the succeeding years would still be worse because he would have no yams to eat and none to plant. View proverb
Nigerian Proverb
If you plan for a year, plant kalo. If you plan for ten years, plant koa. If you plan for one-hundred years, teach the children. View proverb
Hawaiian Proverb
A man too busy to take care of his health is like a farmer too lazy to plant his field. View proverb
Icelandic Proverb
Plant vines as long as you live and seed as far as you see. (Sicilian Proverb)
A plant loses its blossom as soon as it bears fruit. View proverb
Kikuyu Proverb
The mouth who ate the seeds asks, ‘now what shall I plant?'. View proverb
Kikuyu Proverb
He that will bare-foot go must not plant a garden of thistle. View proverb
French Proverb
What you plant, that you will harvest. View proverb
Russian Proverb