1852 Chinese Proverbs / Page 16
301. Be skeptical; long garments can also hide big feet.
302. Be slow to promise but quick to perform.
303. Be the first to the field and the last to the couch.
304. Beat the grass to frighten the snakes.
305. Beat your drum inside the house to spare the neighbors.
306. Beat your gong and sell your candles.
307. Beautiful girls are seldom happy, intelligent boys are seldom beautiful.
308. Beautiful roads never go far.
309. Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.
310. Because men do not like the cold, Heaven does not cause winter to cease.
311. Before preparing to improve the world, first look around your own home three times.
312. Before you beat the dog, find out the name of his master.
313. Before you plan to improve the world, look around your own house three times.
314. Before you prepare to improve the world, look around your own house three times.
315. Begin with an error of an inch and end by being a thousand miles off the mark.
316. Behind an able man there are always other able men.
317. Behind every able man, there are always other able men.
318. Being in the right does not depend on having a loud voice.
319. Believe your servants but do not listen to them.
320. Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.