Chinese Proverbs Quotes
- There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn
- A bird can roost but on one branch, a mouse can drink not more than its fill from a river.
- If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.
- Use power to curb power
- When you drink from the stream remember the spring.
- If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through.
- With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
- Distance tests a horse's strength. Time reveals a person's character.
- I dreamed a thousand new paths... I woke and walked my old one.
- A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion
- Opportunities always look bigger going than coming
- He who seeks vengeance must dig two graves: one for his enemy and one for himself
- If thine enemy wrong thee, buy each of his children a drum
- The greatest conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow
- A book holds a house of gold
- Do not employ handsome servants
- Politeness wins the confidence of princes.
- To encourage talent is to create it
- The black dog gets the food; the white dog gets the blame
- Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.