If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.

Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

Byblending the breath of the sun and the shade, true harmony comes into theworld.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

Evil communication corrupt good manners.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.