41
Without investigating the water, don't take off your shoes (to walk through it).   Meaning:  "Look before you leap."  
  

42
Five fingers are brothers but are not equals.  
Meaning:  Although people may be related by family or nationality each person nevertheless is different.  
  

43
A broken hand can work but a broken heart can't.  
Meaning:  A physical handicap can be overcome, but a wounded spirit cannot be overcome.  
  

44
May God not make one hand dependent on the other.  
Meaning:  Each one should bear his own burdens and shoulder his own responsibilities.  
  

45
Hearing is never as good as seeing.  
Meaning:  One picture is worth thousands of words.  
  

46
A bad wound heals, but a bad word doesn't.  
Meaning:  A cruel tongue does more harm than a sharp sword.  
  

47
If you sit with us, you will get like us; if you sit beside a cooking pot, you will get black.  
Meaning:  You reflect the company you keep.  
  

48
Not to be considered queer conform to the crowd.  
Meaning:  If you don't want to look silly, look like others.  

49
between brother and brother, accounts should be square.  
Meaning:  Even among friends, business should be carried on on an exact basis.  
  

50
One gives by tons, but takes accounts by ounces.  
Meaning:  Give liberally, but do business exactly.  

51
No one says his own buttermilk is sour.  
Meaning:  No one advertises his own faults.  
  

52
Good perfume is known by its scent rather than by the perfumer's advertisement.  
Meaning:  A good tree is known by its fruit, or, the proof of the pudding is in the eating.  
  

53
Poor iron won't make a sharp sword.  
Meaning:  You can't get quality out of inferior raw material.  
  

54
A cheap thing doesn't lack defect, nor an expensive thing quality.  
Meaning:  You get what you pay for.  
  

55
Vinegar that is free, is sweeter than honey.  
Meaning:  People love getting something for nothing.  
  

56
Debt severs (is the scissors of) love.  
Meaning:  Lend money to a friend, and he'll become an enemy.  
  

57
Too many butchers spoil the cow.  
Meaning:   Too many cooks spoil the broth.  
  

58
He has soaked a hundred heads (preparing them for shaving), but hasn't shaved one.  
Meaning:  Used of a person who starts a lot but doesn't finish and so has many monuments to unfinished business.  
  

59
The potter drinks water from a broken jug.  
Meaning:  Used of a physician who doesn't heal himself, or of one who helps others but doesn't help himself.  
  

60
What's a trumpeter's job?  
To blow.  
Meaning:  An adviser, teacher or preacher can only instruct, it is up the hearer/advisee to act.   

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