A jade stone is useless before it is processed; a man is good-for-nothing until he is educated.
With money one may command devils; without it, one cannot even summon a man.
You can chop a man's head off, but you can't keep him quiet.
Hope is an egg, of which one man gets the yolk, another the white, and a third the shell.
You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.
Beware of the front of a bull, the back of a horse and both sides of a blind man.
A man has two ears and one mouth that he hear much and speak little.
Nothing looks more like a sensible man as a fool who holds his tongue.
A blind man sat behind a pile of stones and thought that nobody could see him.
All the water in the sea doesn't even reach the knees of the man who fears not death.
If a man from humble beginnings gets rich, he will carry his umbrella at midnight.
A man's servant can live for a hundred years; the slave of a woman dies in six months.
When God wishes a man well, He gives him insight into his faults.
One with the courage to laugh is the master of the world almost as much as the man who is ready to die.
The smoke of my own house is better than another man's fire.
One man can burn water, whereas another cannot even burn oil.
If a blind man says, "Let's throw stones," be assured that he has stepped on one.
Man is like pepper -- you only know him when you've ground him.
You can't jump from one tree to another but you can from one man to another.
An empty purse and a new house make a man wise, but too late.
Never sit in the place of a man who can say to you, "Rise.".
