F Back to Table of Contents Fail to steal the chicken while it ate up your bait grain. A fall into a ditch makes you wiser. Fight a wolf with a flex stalk. A flea on the top of a bald head. A frog in a well shaft seeing the sky.
Flies never visit an egg that has no crack.
A good fortune may forbode a bad luck, which may in turn disguise a good fortune. Have a mouth as sharp as a dagger but a heart as soft as tofu. Have one's ears pierced only before the wedding ceremony starts. If you do not study hard when young you'll end up bewailing your failures as you grow up. If a son is uneducated, his dad is to blame.