The stitch is lost unless the thread be knotted.

When your neighbor’s house is on fire, carry water to your own.

Sleeping people can’t fall down.

Whoever has a tail of straw should not get close to the fire.

If you have to kill a snake, kill it once and for all.

If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he does not know how wide it is, he will jump, and six times out of ten he will make it.

As long as the sun shines one does not ask for the moon.

When the cup is full, carry it even.

If you cannot be chaste, be cautious.