Don’t be too sweet lest you be eaten up; don’t be too bitter lest you be spewed out.
Do not ask questions of fairy tales.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Whoever does not try, does not learn.
Only love gives us the taste of eternity.
As you teach, you learn.
Love is a sweet dream, and marriage is the alarm clock.
I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet.
A good son-in-law is like the acquisition of a new son; a bad one is like the loss of your daughter.
What you don’t see with your eyes, don’t witness with your mouth.
A mother understands what a child does not say.
If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.
Poverty is no shame – but is no great honor either.
He who puts up with insult invites injury.
Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family.
Among those who laugh, do not weep; among those who weep, do not laugh.
Truth is the safest lie.
There is no book that contains absolutely nothing bad, and there is no book that contains absolutely nothing good.
A pessimist, confronted with two bad choices, chooses both.
One of life’s greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn’t good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world.
First mend yourself, and then mend others.
Pride joined with many virtues chokes them all.
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
Pride is the mask of one’s own faults.
Ideas are something that usually comes like fireman- too late.
If charity cost nothing, the world would be full of philanthropists.