"Beautiful crockery is more satisfying than delicious food."
"Ecstacy begets tragedy, from misery good fortune springs."
"If you have two loaves of bread, sell one and buy a lily."
"Be not afraid of growing slowly. Be afraid only of standing still."
"If thy enemy wrong thee, buy each of his children a drum."
"Talk doesn't cook rice."
"The palest ink is better than the best memory."
~Chinese proverb