A one-inch error at the start can be a thousand miles at the end.
A patient woman can roast an ox with a lantern.
A person without a smiling face must never open a shop.
A picture is worth ten thousand words.
A red-nosed man may be a teetotaler, but will find no one to believe it.
A red-nosed man may not be a drunkard, but he will always be called one.
A satisfied man is happy even if he is poor; a dissatisfied man is sad even if he is rich.
A single beam cannot support a great house.
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.
A small cottage wherein laughter lives is worth more than a castle full of tears.
A teacher is someone who ploughs with his tongue to fill his little bowl with rice.
A thief has more than two hands.
A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds.
A thousand workers, a thousand plans.
A thriftless woman burns the entire candle looking for a match.
A tiger cannot beat a crowd of monkeys.
A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child.
A vacant mind is open to all suggestions, as a hollow building echoes all sounds.
A vacant mind is open to all suggestions, as a hollow mountain returns all sounds.
A well mannered man does not step on the shadow of his fellow man.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
