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• Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.
• Have a mouth as sharp as a dagger but a heart as soft as tofu.
• Have one's ears pierced only before the wedding ceremony starts.
• He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
• He who hurries can not walk with dignity.
• He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.
• A horse cannot gain weight if not fed with extra fodder during the night; a man cannot become wealthy without earnings apart from his regular salaries.
• How can you expect to find ivory in a dog's mouth?
• How can you put out a fire set on a cart-load of firewood with only a cup of water?
• If a son is uneducated, his dad is to blame.
• If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.
• If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hindred days of sorrow.
• If you bow at all, bow low.
• If you do not study hard when young you'll end up bewailing your failures as you grow up.
• If you have never done anything evil, you should not be worrying about devils to knock at your door.
• If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of he game, the stakes, and the quitting time.
• If you see in your wine the reflection of a person not in your range of vision, don't drink it.
• If you suspect a man, don't employ him, and if ypu employ him, don't suspect him.
• If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people.
• If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
• In reviling, it is not necessary to prepare a preliminary draft.
• An inch of time is an inch of gold but you can't buy that inch of time with an inch of gold.
• It is easy to dodge a spear that comes in front of you but hard to keep harms away from an arrow shot from behind.
• It is later than you think.