Chinese Proverbs Quotes
- Crows everywhere are equally black
- Those who have free seats at a play hiss first
- A bride received into the home is like a horse that you have just bought; you break her in by constantly mounting her and continually…
- In the midst of great joy do not promise to give a man anything; in the midst of great anger do not answer a man's…
- It is harder to be poor without complaining than to be rich without boasting
- We are not so much concerned if you are slow as when you come to a halt
- Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.
- To violate the law is the same crime in the emperor as in the subject
- Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the…
- If you want happiness for a lifetime - help the next generation.
- Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last
- The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.
- Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back
- To listen well, is as powerful a means of influence as to talk well, and is as essential to all true conversation
- Medicine can only cure curable disease, and then not always
- There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.
- Though you live near a forest, do not waste firewood
- Consider the past and you shall know the future.
- The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed during war.
- Were I to await perfection, my book would never be finished