From Nanking to Beijing, buyers are never as smart as the sellers.
Learn to handle a writing-brush and you'll never handle a begging-bowl.
Never eat in a restaurant where the chef is thin.
Never write a letter while you are angry.
The tongue of a woman is the sword that is never allowed to rust.
Though all rivers flow into it, the sea never overflows.
A fisherman never says his fish stink.
Faint hearts never win fair ladies.
Pass by your enemy hungry but never naked.
Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
Never fall out with your bread and butter.
A fool looks for dung where the cow never grazed.
A big nose never spoiled a handsome face.
He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.
Never trust a woman who mentions her virtue.
You are never better served than by yourself.
A wild goose never laid a tame egg.
Never listen to these three advisers: wine, the night, and love.
Wolves never gossip about each other.
Never strike your wife, even with a flower.
