To feed the ambition in your heart is like carrying a tiger under your arm.
We all like lamb; each has a different way of cooking it.
The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.
Nothing looks more like an honest man than a villain.
You have to be rich to be able to live like a poor man.
A ripe pear is more likely to fall in the shit than onto the clean ground.
A truth that comes too early or too late is just like a lie.
Good people, like clouds, receive only to give away.
The laughter of someone pining for his beloved is like that of someone who is always crying.
Public money is like holy water, everyone helps himself to it.
Disgrace is like the grain of a tree trunk -- time makes it bigger instead of erasing it.
If God didn't like beautiful women, he wouldn't have made them.
Giving advice to a stupid man is like giving salt to a squirrel.
A fool is like the big drum that beats fast but does not realize its hollowness.
A man with little learning is like the frog who thinks its pond is an ocean.
A secret is like a dove: when it leaves my hand it takes wing.
A malicious man is like a coal sack -- black on the outside and even blacker inside.
Keeping a woman to her word is like trying to hold an eel by its tail.
Laws, like the spider's web, catch the fly and let the hawk go free.
A father deserted by a wise son is like being caught in a shower without a felt.
If a cat wants to eat her kittens, she'll say that they look like mice.
