Throw your good deeds in the ocean, a Chinese proverb.

If God doesn't hear them splash, the fish will.

They say the same thing half backward in old Spanish,

Take what you want when you want, and pay for it.

Who is a man his country does not name, ask Balkans,

What is a home town you can't explain in a few words?

Let the dead man be what he thought he was. No one

Was ever in love but the lover. There is nothing wrong

With me that a thousand dollars couldn't cure.

The voice that carries furthest is first forgotten

By Scots. But the wisest are the reckless Chinese-

Throw your good deeds in the ocean-a good splash-

Like saying I made up all these proverbs but one.