The swiftest horse can't overtake a word once spoken*

Before telling secrets on the road, look in the bushes

A bad word whispered echoes a hundred miles*

In a flood of words, surely some mistakes*

A sharp tongue or pen can kill without a knife*

If the first words fail, ten thousand will then not avail

Watching chess games in silence. . .a superior person*

The judge with seven reasons states only one in court

If you want no one to know, don't do it*

If you want your dinner, don't insult the cook*

Honest scales and full measure hurt no one*

Divide an orange--it tastes just as good

If you always give you will always have

Better lean and good than fat and evil

To build it took one hundred years; to destroy it one day

To know the road ahead, ask those returning*

Touch black paint, have black fingers

To succeed, consult three old people

If you hurry through long days, you will hurry through short years

Touch black paint, have black fingers

The ripest fruit falls by itself*

Simple to open a shop; another thing to keep it open

What you don't see, you don't desire*

Neither fortunes nor flowers last forever*

An inch of gold can't buy an inch of time

Don't waste your hour--the sun sets soon

My life--a candle in the wind. . . frost on the leaves*

Nurture the plant one year--ten days of flowers

Slow work--fine work

At birth we bring our nothing; at death we leave with the same*

A king's riches cannot buy an extra year*

Beat the drum inside the house to spare the neighbors

Climb the mountains to see lowlands

Laws control a lesser person; right conduct controls a greater one*

Forget the favors given; remember those received

A careful foot can step anywhere*

Stare at the profit and step in the pitfall

In bed be wife and husband, in the hall each other's honored guest

To stop drinking, study a drunkard while you are sober

If Heaven made someone, earth can find some use for them

Without sorrows no one becomes a saint

The pine stays green in winter. . . wisdom in hardship

Three feet of ice were not frozen in a day*

With virtue you can't be completely poor; without it you can't be truly rich*

Determination tempers the sword of your character*

Stout men, not stout walls, make the stout city

To be heard afar, bang your gong on a hilltop

Great doubts, deep wisdom. . . small doubts, little wisdom

To know others, know yourself first*

His virtues exceed his talents--a superior man *

When the waters drop, the rocks appear*

O eggs, don't fight with rocks*

Easier to rule a nation than a child*

To have principles first have courage

Blame yourself as you blame others; forgive others as you forgive yourself

The wise listens to her mind, the foolish to the mob*

A whitewashed crow soon shows black again

Watch over workers at their labors, not their meals *

* Many a good face under a ragged hat

Dogs have no prejudice against the poor

If Heaven made someone, earth can find some use for them*

Tile tossed over the wall. . . who knows where it will fall?*

No horse can wear two saddles *

While you are bargaining, conceal your coin

No guests at home, no hosts abroad

"I heard" is good; "I saw" is better

We can study until old age. . . and still not finish

A good teacher. . . better than a barrowful of books

Teachers open the door; you enter by yourself