Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down.
CHINESE PROVERB What is told into the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away.
CHINESE PROVERB Of all the thirty-six alternatives, running away is best.
CHINESE PROVERB To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much and doing nothing.
CHINESE PROVERB Ceremony is the smoke of friendship.
CHINESE PROVERB Respect for ones parents is the highest duty of civil life.
CHINESE PROVERB A maker of idols is never an idolater.
CHINESE PROVERB In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answe...
CHINESE PROVERB Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
CHINESE PROVERB Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifeti...
CHINESE PROVERB If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the ...
CHINESE PROVERB An inch of time cannot be bought with an inch of gold.
CHINESE PROVERB With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
CHINESE PROVERB Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others...
CHINESE PROVERB 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...
CHINESE PROVERB Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
CHINESE PROVERB One step at a time is good walking.
CHINESE PROVERB When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for lif...
CHINESE PROVERB One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him.
CHINESE PROVERB The tongue can paint what the eye can't see.
CHINESE PROVERB To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself.
CHINESE PROVERB With virtue you can't be entirely poor; without virtue you can't really be rich.
CHINESE PROVERB The greatest conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow.
CHINESE PROVERB Sour, sweet, bitter, pungent, all must be tasted.
CHINESE PROVERB When we have nothing to worry about we are not doing much, and not doing much may supply us with ple...
CHINESE PROVERB Do not employ handsome servants.
CHINESE PROVERB If you suspect a man, don't employ him, and if you employ him, don't suspect him.
CHINESE PROVERB A man grows most tired while standing still.
CHINESE PROVERB If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
CHINESE PROVERB A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.
CHINESE PROVERB Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.
CHINESE PROVERB Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.
CHINESE PROVERB The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.
CHINESE PROVERB The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.
CHINESE PROVERB Insanity is doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a different outcome.
CHINESE PROVERB The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.
CHINESE PROVERB One never needs their humor as much a when they argue with a fool.
CHINESE PROVERB If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are...
CHINESE PROVERB Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.
CHINESE PROVERB Great doubts deep wisdom. Small doubts little wisdom.
CHINESE PROVERB The superior doctor prevents sickness; The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; The inferi...
CHINESE PROVERB Who is not satisfied with himself will grow; who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many ...
CHINESE PROVERB A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
CHINESE PROVERB Life is a dream walking death is a going home.
CHINESE PROVERB Biggest profits mean gravest risks.
CHINESE PROVERB We count our miseries carefully, and accept our blessings without much thought.
CHINESE PROVERB Your friend has a friend; don't tell him.
CHINESE PROVERB There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn.
CHINESE PROVERB At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons.
CHINESE PROVERB When men speak of the future, the Gods laugh.
CHINESE PROVERB The saving man becomes the free man.
CHINESE PROVERB A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence.
CHINESE PROVERB A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home.
CHINESE PROVERB If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.
CHINESE PROVERB Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last.
CHINESE PROVERB Enough shovels of earth -- a mountain. Enough pails of water -- a river.
CHINESE PROVERB Climb mountains to see lowlands.
CHINESE PROVERB Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
CHINESE PROVERB Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men's clothes.
CHINESE PROVERB When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.
CHINESE PROVERB One joy scatters a hundred grieves.
CHINESE PROVERB If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed.
CHINESE PROVERB If fortune smiles, who doesn't? If fortune doesn't, who does?
CHINESE PROVERB All people are your relatives, therefore expect only trouble from them.
CHINESE PROVERB Govern a family as you would cook a small fish -- very gently.
CHINESE PROVERB In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.
CHINESE PROVERB Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head.
CHINESE PROVERB Riches: A dream in the night. Fame: A gull floating on water.
CHINESE PROVERB Everyone pushes a falling fence.
CHINESE PROVERB The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
CHINESE PROVERB Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald.
CHINESE PROVERB He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool for...
CHINESE PROVERB Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
CHINESE PROVERB Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.
CHINESE PROVERB Sow much, reap much; sow little, reap little.
CHINESE PROVERB If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.
CHINESE PROVERB Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.
CHINESE PROVERB To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.
CHINESE PROVERB Don't open a shop unless you like to smile.
CHINESE PROVERB The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything...
CHINESE PROVERB The journey is the reward.
CHINESE PROVERB If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees. If you...
CHINESE PROVERB If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If y...
CHINESE PROVERB Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain...
CHINESE PROVERB I dreamed a thousand new paths. I woke and walked my old one.
CHINESE PROVERB With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.
CHINESE PROVERB A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the wo...
CHINESE PROVERB Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
CHINESE PROVERB You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from bui...
CHINESE PROVERB People live like birds in the woods: When the time comes, each must take flight.
CHINESE PROVERB If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
CHINESE PROVERB If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice...
CHINESE PROVERB A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
CHINESE PROVERB The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
CHINESE PROVERB I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
CHINESE PROVERB Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
CHINESE PROVERB To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.
CHINESE PROVERB Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
CHINESE PROVERB Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
CHINESE PROVERB Geng Lei was a famous archer of the state of Wei. One day while he was on an excursion outside the c...
CHINESE PROVERB He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.
CHINESE PROVERB If you are planning for one year, grow rice. If you are planning for 20 years grow trees. If you ar...
CHINESE PROVERB Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it. -Chinese proverb.
CHINESE PROVERB Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes silk.
CHINESE PROVERB Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time. -Chinese proverb.
CHINESE PROVERB To attract good fortune, spend a new penny on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend...
CHINESE PROVERB Outside noisy, inside empty.
CHINESE PROVERB If you plan for one year, plant rice. If you plan for ten years, plant trees. If you plan for 100 ye...
CHINESE PROVERB If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed.
CHINESE PROVERB A single conversation with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.
CHINESE PROVERB He who treads softly goes far.
CHINESE PROVERB Look for a thing until you find it and you'll not lose your labor.
CHINESE PROVERB A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into none at all.
CHINESE PROVERB If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me.
CHINESE PROVERB Respect for ones parents is the highest duty of civil life.
CHINESE PROVERB Forethought is easy, repentance hard.
CHINESE PROVERB Going beyond is as bad as falling short.
CHINESE PROVERB Medicine can only cure curable diseases, and then not always.
CHINESE PROVERB Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
CHINESE PROVERB A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence.
CHINESE PROVERB A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect.
CHINESE PROVERB A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
CHINESE PROVERB He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.
CHINESE PROVERB Of all the thirty-six alternatives, running away is best.
CHINESE PROVERB If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give adv...
CHINESE PROVERB Behind every able man, there are always other able men.
CHINESE PROVERB The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
CHINESE PROVERB The palest ink is better than the best memory.
CHINESE PROVERB The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials.
CHINESE PROVERB Small ills are the fountains of most of our groans. Men trip not on mountains, they stumble on stone...
CHINESE PROVERB If I keep a green bough in my heart, then the singing bird will come. -Chinese proverb.
CHINESE PROVERB The greatest conquerer is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow.
CHINESE PROVERB If you don't want anyone to know it, don't do it.
CHINESE PROVERB One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
CHINESE PROVERB In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not ans...
CHINESE PROVERB Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes.
CHINESE PROVERB In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.
CHINESE PROVERB The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
CHINESE PROVERB Do not anxiously hope for that which is not yet come; do not vainly regret what is already past.
CHINESE PROVERB I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
CHINESE PROVERB The one who pursues revenge should dig two graves.
CHINESE PROVERB If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advi...
CHINESE PROVERB With true friends . . . even water drunk together is sweet enough.
CHINESE PROVERB If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advi...
CHINESE PROVERB He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.
CHINESE PROVERB Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
CHINESE PROVERB He who is not satisfied with himself will grow; he who is not sure of his own correctness will lear...
CHINESE PROVERB Insanity is doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a different outcome.
CHINESE PROVERB Quarreling is like cutting water with a sword.
CHINESE PROVERB Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a life...
CHINESE PROVERB Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever.
CHINESE PROVERB Heaven has a road, but no one travels it; Hell has no gate but men will dig to get there.
CHINESE PROVERB If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the...
CHINESE PROVERB Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
CHINESE PROVERB If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are...
CHINESE PROVERB He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
CHINESE PROVERB To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep.
CHINESE PROVERB Heaven lent you a soul Earth will lend a grave.
CHINESE PROVERB A bit of fragrance clings to the hand that gives flowers.
CHINESE PROVERB A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
CHINESE PROVERB He who strikes the first blow admits he's lost the argument.
CHINESE PROVERB Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.
CHINESE PROVERB When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the ...
CHINESE PROVERB When you drink the water, remember the spring.
CHINESE PROVERB To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
CHINESE PROVERB Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.
CHINESE PROVERB Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
CHINESE PROVERB If you bow at all, bow low.
CHINESE PROVERB He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
CHINESE PROVERB Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
CHINESE PROVERB Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.
CHINESE PROVERB Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
CHINESE PROVERB The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water; but to walk on the earth.
CHINESE PROVERB Not until just before dawn do people sleep best; not until people get old do they become wise.
CHINESE PROVERB If you don't want anyone to know, don't do it.
CHINESE PROVERB If heaven made him, earth can find some use for him.
CHINESE PROVERB He who is drowned is not troubled by the rain.
CHINESE PROVERB Each generation will reap what the former generation has sown.
CHINESE PROVERB The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials.
CHINESE PROVERB I dreamed a thousand new paths. . . I woke and walked my old one.
CHINESE PROVERB The man who comes with a tale about others has himself an ax to grind.
CHINESE PROVERB A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when ...
CHINESE PROVERB If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through.
CHINESE PROVERB If we don't change our direction we're likely to end up where we're headed.
CHINESE PROVERB Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.
CHINESE PROVERB Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still.
CHINESE PROVERB A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.
CHINESE PROVERB He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.
CHINESE PROVERB Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still.
CHINESE PROVERB Do good, reap good; do evil, reap evil.
CHINESE PROVERB Dig the well before you are thirsty.
CHINESE PROVERB Be the first to the field and the last to the couch.
CHINESE PROVERB A rat who gnaws at a cat's tail invites destruction.
CHINESE PROVERB A nation's treasure is in its scholars.
CHINESE PROVERB A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials.
CHINESE PROVERB A fool judges people by the presents they give him.
CHINESE PROVERB A filthy mouth will not utter decent language.
CHINESE PROVERB A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections.
CHINESE PROVERB A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.
CHINESE PROVERB A book tightly shut is but a block of paper.
CHINESE PROVERB