Chinese Proverbs
Most popular Chinese proverbs quotes
The journey is the reward.
Children's mouths speak the truth.
Too much politeness conceals deceit.
Dig the well before you are thirsty.
The fish sees the bait, not the hook.
Whatever will satisfy hunger is good food.
One good teacher outweights a ton of books.
A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
If you don't want anyone to know, don't do it.
Life is but a journey; death is returning home.
Patience and the mulberry leaf become a silk gown.
It is better to be a small stream, than a deep ditch.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Deal with the faults of others as gently as your own.
The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it.
Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
You must scale the mountain if you would view the plain.
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
There is but one way to be born but a hundred ways to die.
A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.
If thine enemy wrong thee, buy each of his children a drum.
If thine enemy wrongs thee, buy each of his children a drum.
He who strikes the first blow admits he has lost the argument.
When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.
Govern your family as you would cook a small fish — very very gently.
A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.
You can't help someone uphill without getting closer to the top yourself.
A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials.
To uncover the truth is not difficult, but to follow the truth is formidable.
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
Only when the cold sets in do you notice the pines and cypresses turning green.
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.
People live like birds in the woods: When the time comes, each must take flight.
There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same.
One evening's conversation with a superior man is better than ten years of study.
He who keeps the hills, burns the wood; he who keeps the streams drinks the water.
To forget one's ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree without a root.
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
If you think too long on your next step, you will end up in life standing on one leg.
He who waits for a roast duck to fly into his mouth must wait a very, very long time.
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose, but, follow no one absolutely.
Give a man a fish and he will live for a day; give him a net, and he will live for a lifetime.
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.
Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.
If You wish to be happy for an hour, get intoxicated. If you wish to be happy for three days, get married If you wish to be happy for eight days, kill your pig and eat it. But If you wish to be happy forever become a gardener.
If there is light in the soul, There will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, There will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, There will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, There will be peace in the world.
