If thou canst not see the bottom, wade not.

Because we focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

Make not a fence more expensive or more important than the thing that is fenced.

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.