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不喫藥當中醫 Nature is
better than a middling doctor.

爭之不足, 讓之友餘 by fighting
you never get enough, by yielding you get
more than you want - Giles

讓人非我弱守己任他强
to yield does not mean that I am weak,
but that I am under self restraint
and leave blustering to others

花錢花在刀刃上 in spending money
on a sword, put it into the blade.

孤掌難鳴 can't clap hands with
one palm

孤樹不成林 one tree doesn't
make a grove

羊有跪乳之恩 lambs have the
grace to suck kneeling

德有鄰 virtue has neighbor

山不在高有仙則名
水不在身有龍則靈

茍日新日日新 If you can renovate
yourself one day, do so every day
-- inscription on bath tub of Tang 湯 BC

[知]者樂水, 乍者樂山 the
wise take pleasure in water, the virtuos
in hills - Giles

上天不生無祿之人 God never
sends a man into the world without
his alloted share of happiness" - Giles

罵人不用打草稿 in cursing
people it is not necessary to prepare
a draft -- words come easily as required - Giles

瞞得過人，瞞不過天 You can deceive
man, but you can't deceive God

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射帛黑人心

出門不惹三子 when you go out from
home there are 3 子 which you
should not irritate - big 老子 old men,
小子 boys, and 瞎子 blind men.

遠處燒香不如近地作福

上有天堂下有蘇杭

兒行千里母担憂
母行千里兒不愁

時來誰不來，時不來，誰來
when fortune smiles who doesn't?
when fortune doesn't, who does? Giles

樹大招風 tall trees invite the wind

恕字終身可行 forgiveness is a rule
good enough for a lifetime

樹倒之下必有枯枝 black sheep
in every family

寧飲木而瘦，母食言而肥
better get thin on water than fat by
breaking (eating) one's own words

墻倒眾人推 every one gives a shove
to a falling wall.

水口拉不出象來 from the small sink
hole in the wall you can't drag out an elephant.

攀倒大樹有柴燒 go after big
game if you can go after any at all.

財能壯膽 money makes a man bold

話不投［機？］半可多 if what is said is not to the point or
suitable to occasion then 1/2 a sentence is too much.

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看花容易，繡花難
一不做二不休 If at first you
用其一緩其二 one thing at a time

無恒產者無恒心

狗攀樹的杈 A dog climbing
a tree - not safe.

蝦蟆想吃天蛾的肉 the
toad contemplating eating crane's flesh --
the impracticable.

老虎也有打盹的時候
even the tiger has his naps.

胖子不是一口兒吃的 Rome
was not built in a day

一個巴掌拍不響 it takes
two to make a quarrell. cf 孤掌難鳴

許而不與不如不許 better make no
promises than break them.

射人先射馬, 擒賊先擒王

莫問能不能, 但問肯不肯

一言不中, 千言無用 One word not to
the point makes a thousand words of none

看命先生半路死, 地理先生
無處埋 the fortune teller dies in the
prime of life, the geomancer has no
burying place.

郎中醫病, 不能醫命 a doctor can
cure disease, but can't guarante life.

天上多一仙人, 不如世上多一聖賢
better are more good men on earth than
an extra angel in heaven.