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| AN AVARICIOUS man, who can never get enough, is like a snake trying to swallow an elephant. | 1 |
| To draw the picture of a tiger, and make a dog out of it, is to imitate a masterpiece and spoil it. | 2 |
| Human pleasures are like the flittings of sparrows. | 3 |
| A narrow-minded man resembles a frog in a well. | 4 |
| Do not pull up your stockings in a melon-patch, or straighten your hat in a peach orchard; any one seeing you may think you are stealing. | 5 |
| To talk much and arrive nowhere is the same as climbing a tree to catch a fish. | 6 |
| One thread does not make a rope. | 7 |
| The tiger does not walk with the hind. | 8 |
| You can neither buy wood in the forest nor fish by the lake. | 9 |
| If a blind man leads another blind man, they will both fall into a hole. | 10 |
| No maker of idols worships the gods; he knows their composition too well. | 11 |
| A man with a purple nose may be very temperate in drink, only no one will believe it. | 12 |
| Money makes the blind man see. | 13 |
| We admire our own writings, but other men’s wives. | 14 |
| If you are afraid of being found out, leave it alone. | 15 |
| Bend your neck if the eaves are low. | 16 |
| It’s not the wine that makes a man drunk; it’s the man himself. | 17 |
| A whisper on earth sounds like thunder in heaven. | 18 |
| To get a favor granted is harder than to kill a tiger. | 19 |
| Sweep the snow from your own door. | 20 |
| If there were no error there could be no truth. | 21 |
| A needle never pricks with both ends. | 22 |
| Don’t put two saddles on one horse. | 23 |
| Trust nature rather than a bad doctor. | 24 |
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