When you want to test the depths of a stream, don't use both feet.

A bird does not sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song.

A good breakfast is no substitute for a large dinner.

Lies in newspapers are like rat droppings in clear soup. Not only disgusting but obvious.

At birth, we bring nothing; at death, we take nothing away.

What the eye does not see, the eye does not grieve.

A person without a smiling face should not open a shop.

If there is light in the soul, There will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, There will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, There will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, There will be peace in the world

A good man does not get a good wife, and a leper marries a flowering branch.

A wife is sought for her virtue, a concubine for her beauty.