Hey, Xiao Li, are you doing anything this weekend?
嘿,小李,这个周末有没有什么事要做?
Hard words break no bones, fine words butter no parsnips.
粗话无害,甘言无益。
He loved to be told that one of his imaginary products was temporarily out of stock and he would faithfully promise to call again at some future date, but of course he never did.