A grateful dog has more worth than an ungrateful man.
A heart free from care is better than a full purse.
Better make profit out of manure than losses with musk.
Better to have bread and an onion with peace than stuffed fowl with strife.
Open rebuke is better than secret love. Proverbs 27:5
More people are threatened than are beaten up.
One devil that you know is better than twenty that you don't.
If you are going to have a roast, a chicken is better than a phoenix.
Sending charcoal in the snow is better than adding flowers to a brocade.
Your best mirror is someone more beautiful than you.
The horse that you love draws more than four oxen.
It is easier to make a lady of a peasant girl than a peasant girl of a lady.
Good words cool more than cold water.
Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.
Choose a wife rather by your ear than by your eye.
Better a goat that can give milk than a cow that cannot.
It is better to be without a wife for a minute than without tobacco for an hour.
A clear conscience is more valuable than wealth.
Man is the only mammal that can be skinned more than once.
Nothing is more contagious than a bad example.
One good argument is worth more than ten better ones.
