1852 Chinese Proverbs / Page 48
- 471. Draw the bow but don't shoot -- it is a bigger threat to be intimidated than to be hit.
 - 472. Dream different dreams on the same bed.
 - 473. Dream different dreams while on the same bed.
 - 474. Dream of a funeral and you hear of a marriage.
 - 475. Drinking with a bosom friend, a thousand shots are too few; Talking with a disagreeable person, half a sentence is too many.
 - 476. Drinks down your sorrow, but your sorrow returns the morning after.
 - 477. Dripping water can eat through a stone.
 - 478. Drunkards talk to the gods.
 - 479. Drunkenness does not itself cause bad qualities but it does show them up clearly.
 - 480. Drunkenness does not produce faults; it discovers them.

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