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Chinese Proverb Quotations
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With true friends...even water drunk together is sweet enough.
Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.
Never write a letter while you are angry.
A closed mind is like a closed book just a block of wood.
Judge not the horse by his saddle.
He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
If you stand straight Do not fear a crooked shadow.
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
Do not employ handsome servants.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
If you bow at all, bow low.
Use power to curb power.
A filthy mouth will not utter decent language.
Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.
Sour, sweet, bitter, pungent, all must be tasted.
Enough shovels of earth ..........................a mountain. Enough pails of water ...............................a river.
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.
There is many a good man to be found under a shabby hat.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Dig the well before you are thirsty.
A book tightly shut is but a block of paper.
The man who does not learn is dark, like one walking in the night.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials.
If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through.
The man who comes with a tale about others has himself an ax to grind.
I dreamed a thousand new paths. . . I woke and walked my old one.
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
A bit of fragrance clings to the hand that gives flowers.
Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still.
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.
Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it.
Be the first to the field and the last to the couch.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come.
The beginning of wisdom is calling things by their right names.
If you must play, decide on three things at the start the rules of he game, the stakes, and the quitting time.
There are two perfect men one dead, and the other unborn.
One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him.
Practice no vice because it's trivial... Neglect no virtue because it's so.
Married couples tell each other a thousand things without speech.
With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
If heaven made him, earth can find some use for him.
Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot.
He who is drowned is not troubled by the rain.
Each generation will reap what the former generation has sown.
After three days without reading, talk becomes flavorless.
Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose, but, follow no one absolutely.
One should be just as careful in choosing one's pleasures as in avoiding calamities.
When you drink the water, remember the spring.
If you always give You will always have.
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think.
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
If you suspect a man, don't employ him, and if ypu employ him, don't suspect him.
A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections.
A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials.
In reviling, it is not necessary to prepare a preliminary draft.
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
A book holds a house of gold.
When you want to test the depths of a stream, don't use both feet.
Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.
Climb mountains to see lowlands.
A fool judges people by the presents they give him.
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last.
Take a second look... It costs you nothing.
Do good, reap good; do evil, reap evil.
If you are rich, you speak the truth if you are poor, your words are but lies.
Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.
An inch of time cannot be bought with an inch of gold.
Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down.
Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life.
He who hurries can not walk with dignity.
If you see in your wine the reflection of a person not in your range of vision, don't drink it.
Unles we change direction, we are likely to wind up where we are headed.
A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds.
The palest ink is better than the best memory.
A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.