I am interested in learning more local-sayings (proverbs). Such as:
1. You can hardly make a friend in a year, but you can easily offend one in an hour.
2. When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
3. When you say one thing, the clever person understands three.
4. When you want to test the depths of a stream, don’t use both feet
5. When the tree falls, the shadow flies.
6. When the mantis hunts the locust, he forgets the shrike that’s hunting him. When the tiger comes down from the mountain to the plains, it is bullied by the dogs When the tiger comes down from the mountain to the plains, it is bullied by the dogs.
7. Water that has reached its level does not flow.
8. Unplowed fields make hollow bellies; unread books make hollow minds.
9. It takes little effort to watch a man carry a load.
10. Much wealth will not come if a little does not go.
11. It is only when the cold season comes that we know the pine and
cypress to be evergreens.
12. A needle is sharp only at one end.
13. Look for a thing till you find it and you’ll not lose your labor.
14. A man’s faults all conform to his type of mind. Observe his faults and you may know his virtues.
15. A diamond with a flaw is preferable to a common stone with none.
16. You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent their making a nest in your hair
I’d like to know how to say these in Mandarin.