1852 Chinese Proverbs / Page 24
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Don't suspect your employee. If one is suspicious, don't employ him.462.
Don't trust your wife until she has borne you ten sons.463.
Don't try to make predictions -- especially those concerning the future.464.
Don't use oiled paper to wrap up fire.465.
Don't want others to know what you have done? Better not have done it anyway.466.
Don't waste good iron for nails or good men for soldiers.467.
Don't waste too many stones on one bird.468.
Donkey's lips do not fit in with a horse's mouth.469.
Donkey's lips don't fit onto a horse's mouth.470.
Draw a cake to satisfy one's hunger.471.
Draw the bow but don't shoot -- it is a bigger threat to be intimidated than to be hit.472.
Dream different dreams on the same bed.473.
Dream different dreams while on the same bed.474.
Dream of a funeral and you hear of a marriage.475.
Drinking with a bosom friend, a thousand shots are too few; Talking with a disagreeable person, half a sentence is too many.476.
Drinks down your sorrow, but your sorrow returns the morning after.477.
Dripping water can eat through a stone.478.
Drunkards talk to the gods.479.
Drunkenness does not itself cause bad qualities but it does show them up clearly.480.
Drunkenness does not produce faults; it discovers them.