Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve. Keep your chin up. Kill a chicken before a monkey. Kill one to warn a hundred. Kill the chicken to frighten the monkey. Know thyself to know others, for heart beats like heart. Large demands on oneself and little demands on others keep resentment at bay. Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. Laws control the lesser man; right conduct controls the greater one. Learn to handle a writing-brush and you'll never handle a begging-bowl. Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. Learning is a weightless treasure you always carry easy. Learning is better than house and land. Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back. Learning is treasure no thief can touch. Learning is weightless, treasure you can always carry easily. Leave a bit of the tail to whisk off flies. Let him who does not know what war is go to war. Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends whom we choose. Life isn't all beer and skittles. Lift a stone only to drop on your own feet. Like ants eating a bone. Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose, but, follow no one absolutely. Long roads test the horse, long dealings the friend. Look for a thing until you find it and you'll not lose your labor. Looking for fish? Don't climb a tree. Looking for the ass on its very back. Losing comes of winning money. Lots of dreams can occur over a long night. Love is blind, and greed insatiable. Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes. Love is blind. Love is incompatible with fear. Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come. Make sure you leave some fat for the other side. Mallet strikes chisel; chisel splits wood. Man cannot stir one inch without the push of heaven's finger. Man concocts a million schemes; god knows but one. Man fools himself. He prays for a long life and he fears old age. Man has a thousand plans, heaven but one. Man is heaven and earth in miniature. Man must be sharpened on man, like knife on stone. Man who drive like hell bound to get there. Man who eat many prunes get good run for money. Man who farts in church sits in own pew. Man who fishes in other man's well often catches crabs. Man who gets too big for his britches may get exposed in the end. Man who jump off cliff jump to conclusion. Man who keep feet firmly on ground have trouble putting on pants. Man who lives in glass house should change clothes in basement. Man who run behind car get exhausted. Man who run in front of car get tired. Man who scratches rear should not bite fingernails. Man who sinks into woman's arms soon will find arms in woman's sink. Man who stand on toilet is high on pot. Man with one chopstick go hungry. Man's schemes are inferior to those made by heaven Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not. Mankind scorns a virtuous man, but heaven does not. Manners maketh man. Many a good face is under a ragged hat. Many a little make a mickle. Many books do not use up words; many words do not use up thoughts. Married couples tell each other a thousand things without speech. Married couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without talking. Matrimony is the grave of romance. Medicine can only cure curable disease, and then not always. Men fated to be happy need not haste. Men in the game are blind to what men looking on see clearly. Men know not all their faults, oxen all their strength. Mend the pen only after the sheep are all gone. Misfortune is not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot. Modern house without toilet uncanny. Nature is better than a middling doctor. Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians. Never answer a letter while you are angry. Never argue with a man who buys ink by the barrel. Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down. Never try to catch two frogs with one hand. Never write a letter while you are angry. No matter how stout one beam, it cannot support a house. No matter how tall the mountain, it cannot block out the sun. No medicines can cure the vulgar man. No melon-peddler cries: Bitter melons! No wine-dealer says: Sour wine! No mill, no meal. No wind, no waves. No wisdom like silence. No wisdom to silence. Not wine . . . men intoxicate themselves; not vice . . . men entice themselves. O eggs, never fight with stones! O man, you who do not live a hundred years, why fret a thousand minutes? Of a dead leopard we keep the skin, of man his reputation. Of a good beginning cometh a good end. Of all meat in the world drink goes down the best. Of all the strategems, to know when to quit is the best. Of all the thirty-six alternatives, running away is the best. Often one finds one's destiny just where one hides to avoid it. On entering a country, ask what is forbidden, on entering a village, ask what are the customs, on entering a private house, ask what should not be mentioned. Once bitten by a snake, he is scared all his life at the mere sight of a rope. Once bitten by a snake, he/she is scared all his/her life at the mere sight of a rope. Once bitten by a snake, you are even frightened by a rope that resembles a snake. Once bitten by a  mosquito, you worry about mosquitoes all day. Once bitten by a  snake, you are even frightened by a rope that resembles a snake. Once on a tiger's back it is hard to alight. Once on a tiger's back, it is hard to alight. One can care little for man, but we need a friend. One cannot manage too many affairs; like pumpkins in water, one pops up while you try to hold down the other. One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked. One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him. One family builds the wall, two families enjoy it. One generation plants the trees, another gets the shade. One happiness scatters a thousand sorrows. One joy shatters a hundred griefs. One monk shoulders water by himself; two can still share the labor among them. When it comes to three, they have to go thirsty. One should be just as careful in choosing one's pleasures as in avoiding calamities. One step at a time is good walking. One step at a time. One's shadow grows larger than life when admired by the light of the moon. Only he that has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep. Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire. Out of a dog's mouth will never come ivory tusks. Outside noisy, inside empty.