“A house without children is a graveyard.”

Use medicine as well as prayers.

Fish and guests smell when they are three days old.

To sing to the deaf, to talk with the dumb, and to dance for the blind are three foolish things.

No strength within, no respect without.

A problem is solved when it gets tougher.

I had no shoes and complained until I saw a man who had no feet.

He who has a true friend, has no need of a mirror.

Ask thy purse what thou should buy.

The eyes do not see what the mind does not want.

One finger can’t lift a pebble.

The money you dream about will not pay your bills.

A known mistake is better than an unknown truth.

War is to men, childbirth is to women.

To loan is to buy troubles.

Like the body that is made up of different limbs and organs, all moral creatures must depend on each other to exist.

Believe what you see and not all you hear.