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Chinese Proverb Quotes
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Famous Chinese Proverb Quotations
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Family of languages comprising one of the two branches of Sino-Tibetan. They are spoken by about 95% of the inhabitants of China and by many communities of Chinese immigrants elsewhere
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- A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. Chinese Proverb »
- A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. Chinese Proverb »
- A closed mind is like a closed book just a block of wood. Chinese Proverb »
- A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. Chinese Proverb »
- A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. Chinese Proverb »
- A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. Chinese Proverb »
- After three days without reading, talk becomes flavorless. Chinese Proverb »
- Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. Chinese Proverb »
- Behind an able man there are always other able men. Chinese Proverb »
- Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. Chinese Proverb »
- Climb mountains to see lowlands. Chinese Proverb »
- Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own. Chinese Proverb »
- Do not employ handsome servants. Chinese Proverb »
- Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet. Chinese Proverb »
- Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think. Chinese Proverb »
- Enough shovels of earth ..........................a mountain. Enough pails of water ...............................a river. 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 life. 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 »
- Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring. Chinese Proverb »
- He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever. Chinese Proverb »
- He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them. Chinese Proverb »
- He who hurries can not walk with dignity. Chinese Proverb »
- I dreamed a thousand new paths. . . I woke and walked my old one. Chinese Proverb »
- I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand. Chinese Proverb »
- If heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. Chinese Proverb »
- 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. Chinese Proverb »
- If you always give You will always have. Chinese Proverb »
- If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. Chinese Proverb »
- If you are planning for a year, sow rice if you are planning for a decade, plant trees if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people. Chinese Proverb »
- If you are rich, you speak the truth if you are poor, your words are but lies. Chinese Proverb »
- If you bow at all, bow low. Chinese Proverb »
- If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through. Chinese Proverb »
- If you must play, decide on three things at the start the rules of he game, the stakes, and the quitting time. Chinese Proverb »
- If you see in your wine the reflection of a person not in your range of vision, don't drink it. Chinese Proverb »
- If you stand straight Do not fear a crooked shadow. Chinese Proverb »
- If you suspect a man, don't employ him, and if ypu employ him, don't suspect him. Chinese Proverb »
- If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people. Chinese Proverb »
- In reviling, it is not necessary to prepare a preliminary draft. Chinese Proverb »
- Judge not the horse by his saddle. Chinese Proverb »
- Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve. Chinese Proverb »
- Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. Chinese Proverb »
- Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose, but, follow no one absolutely. Chinese Proverb »
- Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come. Chinese Proverb »
- Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it. Chinese Proverb »
- Married couples tell each other a thousand things without speech. Chinese Proverb »
- Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down. Chinese Proverb »
- Never write a letter while you are angry. Chinese Proverb »
- One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him. Chinese Proverb »
- One should be just as careful in choosing one's pleasures as in avoiding calamities. Chinese Proverb »
- Practice no vice because it's trivial... Neglect no virtue because it's so. Chinese Proverb »
- Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind. Chinese Proverb »
- Sour, sweet, bitter, pungent, all must be tasted. Chinese Proverb »
- Take a second look... It costs you nothing. Chinese Proverb »
- Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. Chinese Proverb »
- The beginning of wisdom is calling things by their right names. Chinese Proverb »
- The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. Chinese Proverb »
- The man who comes with a tale about others has himself an ax to grind. Chinese Proverb »
- The man who does not learn is dark, like one walking in the night. Chinese Proverb »
- The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. Chinese Proverb »
- The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. Chinese Proverb »
- The palest ink is better than the best memory. Chinese Proverb »
- There are two perfect men one dead, and the other unborn. Chinese Proverb »
- There is many a good man to be found under a shabby hat. Chinese Proverb »
- Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot. Chinese Proverb »
- Those who have free seats at a play hiss first. Chinese Proverb »
- To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon. Chinese Proverb »
- To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep. Chinese Proverb »
- To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. Chinese Proverb »
- Use power to curb power. Chinese Proverb »
- When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. Chinese Proverb »
- When you drink the water, remember the spring. Chinese Proverb »
- When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. Chinese Proverb »
- When you want to test the depths of a stream, don't use both feet. Chinese Proverb »
- With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown. Chinese Proverb »
- With true friends...even water drunk together is sweet enough. Chinese Proverb »
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