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Art is the illusion of spontaneity.
Beginning is easy - Continuing is hard.
Don't stay long when the husband is not at home.
Fall down seven times, get up eight.
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Gossip about a person and his shadow will appear.
If you believe everything you read, better not read.
In a quarrel, the higher voiced person will win.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
One kind word can warm three winter months.
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
A fog cannot be dispelled by a fan.
A good husband is healthy and absent.
A good Jack makes a good Jill.
A good sword is the one left in its scabbard.
A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.
A mended lid to a cracked pan.
A merchant's happiness hangs upon chance, winds, and waves.
A pig used to dirt turns its nose up at rice.
A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.
A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.
Adversity is the foundation of virtue.
Affinity is a mysterious thing, but it is spicy!
After victory, tighten your helmet chord.
All married women are not wives.
An accomplishment sticks to a person.
An excess of courtesy is discourtesy.
Bad and good are intertwined like rope.
Better go without medicine than call in an unskilled physician.
Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse.
Deceive the rich and powerful if you will, but don't insult them.
Deceiving a deceiver is no knavery.
Even a sheet of paper has two sides.
Even a thief takes ten years to learn his trade.
Fast Ripe, Fast Rotten.
Forgiving the unrepentant is like drawing pictures on water.
Getting money is like digging with a needle. Spending it is like water soaking into the sand.
If a man be great, even his dog will wear a proud look.
If a man deceive me once, shame on him; if he deceive me twice, shame on me.
If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty.
If you understand everything, you must be misinformed.
It is a beggar's pride that he is not a thief.
Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back of an ass.
Laughter cannot bring back what anger has driven away.
Life without endeavor is like entering a jewel-mine and coming out with empty hands.
Money grows on the tree of persistence.
My son is my son till he gets him a wife, but my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life.
One dog yelping at nothing will set ten thousand straining at their collars.
One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger.
Only lawyers and painters can turn white to black.
The inarticulate speak longest.
The pebble in the brook secretly thinks itself a precious stone.
The tongue is but three inches long, yet it can kill a man six feet high.
The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention.
To wait for luck is the same as waiting for death.
Vision with action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare.
We learn little from victory, much from defeat.
We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.
We've arrived, and to prove it we're here.
When you're thirsty it's too late to think about digging a well.
While we consider when to begin, it becomes too late.
Wisdom and virtue are like the two wheels of a cart.