From Nanking to Beijing, buyers are never as smart as the sellers.
Fuel is not sold in a forest, nor fish on a lake.
Garden flowers larger, field flowers stronger.
Genius can be recognized by its childish simplicity.
Get the coffin ready and watch the man mend.
Gifts reflect those who give them.
Girls marry to please parents, widows to please themselves.
Give a dog a tasty name and eat him.
God and fairies can be wrong as well.
Going beyond is as bad as falling short.
Going into a country the first time, ask what is forbidden; on entering a village, ask what are the customs; on entering a private house, ask what should not be mentioned.
Going too far is as bad as falling short.
Gold has its price; learning is beyond price.
Good behavior is a virtue for the man -- bad behavior is the virtue of a woman.
Good fortune may forbode bad luck, which may in turn disguise good fortune.
Good manners can be paid for with compliments, but only the sound of money will pay your debts.
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish -- very gently.
Govern yourself and you can govern the world.
Great blessings come from Heaven; small blessings come from man.
Great business is good; to sit and sip this glass is better.
Great doubts deep wisdom. Small doubts little wisdom.
