1852 Chinese Proverbs / Page 30
581.
Friendship between gentlemen appears indifferent but is pure like water.582.
From Nanking to Beijing, buyers are never as smart as the sellers.583.
From the lowly perspective of a dog's eyes, everyone looks short.584.
Fruits of the same tree have different tastes; children of the same mother have various qualities.585.
Fuel is not sold in a forest, nor fish on a lake.586.
Full of courtesy, full of cunning.587.
Garden flowers larger, field flowers stronger.588.
Garlands are not for every brow.589.
Gems are polished by rubbing, just as men are made brilliant by trials.590.
Genius can be recognized by its childish simplicity.591.
Get the coffin ready and watch the man mend.592.
Girls marry to please parents, widows to please themselves.593.
Girls will be girls.594.
Give a beggar a bed and he'll repay you with a louse.595.
Give a dog a tasty name and eat him.596.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life.597.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.598.
Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever.599.
Give it to the Yangtze that rambles east to the sea.600.
Give one fish and he's fed for only a day. Teach one how to fish and he'll be free from hunger all his life.