Do what your teacher says but not what he does.
More Traditional Proverbs:
Books and friends should be few but good.Traditional
From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage. From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought. From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of ... silence.
Traditional
Memory is the power to gather roses in winter.
Traditional
The tongue of a poet is always the last to be corrupted
Traditional
The Buddha has mercy even on the meanest thing.
Traditional
As much use as a yard of pump water.
Traditional