“Don’t think there are no crocodiles just because the water is calm.”

When you show the child the moon, it sees only your finger.

The fool speaks, the wise man listens.

Only a wise person can solve a difficult problem.

No shortcuts exist to the top of a palm tree.

Lovers do not hide their nakedness.

The wise create proverbs for fools to learn, not to repeat.

The axe forgets but the tree remembers.

A happy man marries the girl he loves; a happier man loves the girl he married.

The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love.

Dine with a stranger but save your love for your family.

A fool has to say something. A wise person has something to say.

Love doesn’t listen to rumors.

If money were to be found up in the trees, most people would be married to monkeys.

One who plants grapes by the roadside, and one who marries a pretty woman, share the same problem.

To try and to fail is not laziness.

He who refuses to obey cannot command.