Do not kick away the canoe which helped you to cross the river.
Do not measure up the wood before the tree is cut down.
Do not scare the birds you are going to shoot.
Do not treat your loved one like a swinging door: you are fond of it but you push it back and forth.
Do not waste your time looking for soft ground to drive your spade in.
Don't be so much in love that you can't tell when it's raining.
Don't help a bull out of a ditch, for when he's out he'll butt you.
Don't kick a sleeping dog.
Don't take a second mouthful before you have swallowed the first.
Done in by his own trade like a water merchant in the rain.
Even the bottom of a basket finds something to hold.
Flint and gunpowder: every time they meet there is an explosion.
Friendship reminds us of fathers, love of mothers.
From all the fish in the pot you can only make one soup.
Greet everyone cordially when you don't know who your in-laws are going to be.
He is truly hungry who accepts defeat in a fight over meat.
Idleness moves so slowly that it will be overtaken by misery.
If love is torn apart you cannot stitch the pieces together again.
If the hill is on fire the grasshoppers are roasted.
If we don't fight we remain equals, if we do fight then one of us wins.
If you try to cleanse others -- just like soap, you will waste away in the process!
