“A fish and bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together.”

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.

Other people’s wisdom prevents the king from being called a fool.

Parents give birth to the body of their children, but not always to their characters.

Knowledge without wisdom is like water in the sand.

A family tie is like a tree, it can bend but it cannot break.

Don’t try to make someone hate the person he loves. For he will go on loving but he will hate you.

A child is what you put into him.

In a family if you have somebody who is troublesome it’s the family members who are more worried than the troublesome member.

Do not treat your loved one like a swinging door: you are fond of it but you push it back and forth.

However far a stream flows, it doesn’t forget its origin.

When deed speaks, words are nothing.

Every kind of love is love, but self-love is supreme among them.

Restless feet might walk you into a snake pit.

When two elephants fight, it is the grass that gets hurt.