As soon as a man gets new trousers, he thinks about a new wife.
A small debt makes a man your debtor, a large one your enemy.
Every little yielding to anxiety is a step away from the natural heart of man.
Better one day a man than ten days a woman.
When a bald man dies the mourners give him curly hair as a present.
A deaf man may not have heard the thunder but he surely will see the rain.
A man with little learning is like the frog who thinks its pond is an ocean.
A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
If a man would live in peace, he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.
If you would make an enemy, lend a man money, and ask for it back again.
The man who takes legal action often loses an ox to win a cat.
If a man's heart be impure, all things will appear hostile to him.
A malicious man is like a coal sack -- black on the outside and even blacker inside.
No one will say, "My father is incontinent." Everyone will say, "He is a man of advice and wisdom."
Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash.
Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.
If the bald man knew a remedy he would rub it on his own head.
Men would not be richer for being miserly; generosity does not make a man poorer.
When the man is away, the monkey eats his corn and goes into his hut.
Why is it the songs all end with the good people winning, but in life they don't?" They don't make songs when the good lose," I muttered. "They make war chants against the bad. So there won't be any songs for us.
Patience, grasshopper," said Maia. "Good things come to those who wait." "I always thought that was 'Good things come to those who do the wave,'" said Simon. "No wonder I've been so confused all my life.