A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.
The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.
Afraid of his own shadow.
An excess of courtesy is discourtesy.
A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.
Bad and good are intertwined like rope.
Beginning is easy – continuing hard.
Even a sheet of paper has two sides.
Everyone makes mistakes. That’s why there is an eraser on every pencil.
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
First things first.
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 money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
If one man praises you, a thousand will repeat the praise.
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
Money grows on the tree of persistence.
Money has no smell.
My skirt with tears is always wet: I have forgotten to forget.
My son is my son till he gets him a wife, but my daughter’s my daughter all the days of her life.
Never rely on the glory of the morning or the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulty.
One kind word can warm three winter months.
One written word is worth a thousand pieces of gold.
The crow that mimics a cormorant is drowned.
The day you decide to do it is your lucky day.
The inarticulate speak longest.
The mouth is the door of evil.
The pebble in the brook secretly thinks itself a precious stone.
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
The smaller the margin, the greater the turnover.
The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention.
The tongue is but three inches long, yet it can kill a man six feet high.
The tongue is more to be feared than the sword.
To wait for luck is the same as waiting for death.
Virtue is not knowing but doing.
Vision with action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare.
Walls have ears, bottles have mouths.
We learn little from victory, much from defeat.
When the time comes, even a rat becomes a tiger.
We’ve arrived, and to prove it we’re here.
When you’re thirsty it’s too late to think about digging a well.
Wisdom and virtue are like the two wheels of a cart.
