5. A girl with no sense of propriety will disgrace both her husband and her father; neither will have any respect for her.
6. Lecturing your children can sometimes be as out of place as singing to people in mourning, but a whipping is a wise choice of discipline at any time.
7. Trying to teach a fool is like gluing a broken pot together again, like waking someone out of a deep sleep.
8. Explaining something to a fool is like explaining it to a sleepy person; when you have finished, he'll say, “What was that again?”