1: Don't brashly announce what you're going to do tomorrow; you don't know the first thing about tomorrow.
2: Don't call attention to yourself; let others do that for you.
3: Carrying a log across your shoulders while you're hefting a boulder with your arms Is nothing compared to the burden of putting up with a fool.
4: We're blasted by anger and swamped by rage, but who can survive jealousy?
5: A spoken reprimand is better than approval that's never expressed.
6: The wounds from a lover are worth it; kisses from an enemy do you in.
7: When you've stuffed yourself, you refuse dessert; when you're starved, you could eat a horse.
8: People who won't settle down, wandering hither and yon, are like restless birds, flitting to and fro.
9: Just as lotions and fragrance give sensual delight, a sweet friendship refreshes the soul.
10: Don't leave your friends or your parents' friends and run home to your family when things get rough; Better a nearby friend than a distant family.
11: Become wise, dear child, and make me happy; then nothing the world throws my way will upset me.
12: A prudent person sees trouble coming and ducks; a simpleton walks in blindly and is clobbered.
13: Hold tight to collateral on any loan to a stranger; be wary of accepting what a transient has pawned.
14: If you wake your friend in the early morning by shouting "Rise and shine!" It will sound to him more like a curse than a blessing.
15: A nagging spouse is like the drip, drip, drip of a leaky faucet;
16: You can't turn it off, and you can't get away from it.
17: You use steel to sharpen steel, and one friend sharpens another.
18: If you care for your orchard, you'll enjoy its fruit; if you honor your boss, you'll be honored.
19: Just as water mirrors your face, so your face mirrors your heart.
20: Hell has a voracious appetite, and lust just never quits.
21: The purity of silver and gold is tested by putting them in the fire; The purity of human hearts is tested by giving them a little fame.
22: Pound on a fool all you like--you can't pound out foolishness.
23: Know your sheep by name; carefully attend to your flocks;
24: (Don't take them for granted; possessions don't last forever, you know.)
25: And then, when the crops are in and the harvest is stored in the barns,
26: You can knit sweaters from lambs' wool, and sell your goats for a profit;
27: There will be plenty of milk and meat to last your family through the winter.