1852 Chinese Proverbs / Page 28
541. Fat fries and burns itself.
542. Fate leads those who are willing but must push those who are not.
543. Faults and virtues are but two sides of the same coin.
544. Fearing laws makes one happy every day; withholding truth from heaven worries one all the time.
545. Fifty steps laugh at a hundred steps.
546. Fight a wolf with a flex stalk.
547. Fight fire with fire.
548. Fight only when you can win; move away when you cannot.
549. Fight poison with poison.
550. Fighting a wolf with a flex stalk - either side is afraid of the other.
551. Fill in the eyes to a painted dragon.
552. Fire makes mud hard and gold melt.
553. Fish a needle in the sea.
554. Fish cannot survive in absolutely clear water.
555. Fish for the moon in the water.
556. Fish in muddled water.
557. Flies never infest an egg without cracks.
558. Flowers leave a part of their fragrance in the hands that bestow them.
559. Flowers leave some of their fragrance in the hand that bestows them.
560. Flowers look different in different eyes.