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\"Proverbs
Proverbs from China<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Proverbs from China, old saying of Chinese great wisdom from letter M to Y<\/span><\/p>\n

The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.<\/span>
\nTibetan Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Man fools himself. He prays for a long life and he fears old age.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Man has a thousand plans, heaven but one.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Man is heaven and earth in miniature.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Man must be sharpened on man, like knife on stone.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Mankind scorns a virtuous man, but heaven does not.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Many a good face is under a ragged hat.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Many books do not use up words; many words do not use up thoughts.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Married couples tell each other a thousand things without speech.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Married couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without talking.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Medicine can only cure curable disease, and then not always.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Men fated to be happy need not haste.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Men in the game are blind to what men looking on see clearly.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Men know not all their faults, oxen all their strength.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Misfortune is not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Make sure you leave some fat for the other side.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Mallet strikes chisel; chisel splits wood.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Man cannot stir one inch without the push of heaven’s finger.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Man concocts a million schemes; god knows but one.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

O eggs, never fight with stones!<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

O man, you who do not live a hundred years, why fret a thousand minutes?<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Of a dead leopard we keep the skin, of man his reputation.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Of all the thirty-six alternatives, running away is the best.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Often one finds one’s destiny just where one hides to avoid it.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

On entering a country, ask what is forbidden, on entering a village, ask what are the customs, on entering a private house, ask what should not be mentioned.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Once bitten by a snake, he is scared all his life at the mere sight of a rope.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Once on a tiger’s back it is hard to alight.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

One can care little for man, but we need a friend.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

One cannot manage too many affairs; like pumpkins in water, one pops up while you try to hold down the other.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

One family builds the wall, two families enjoy it.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

One generation plants the trees, another gets the shade.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

One happiness scatters a thousand sorrows.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

One joy shatters a hundred griefs.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

One monk shoulders water by himself; two can still share the labor among them. When it comes to three, they have to go thirsty.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

One should be just as careful in choosing one’s pleasures as in avoiding calamities.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

One step at a time is good walking.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

One’s shadow grows larger than life when admired by the light of the moon.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Only he that has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Only he who has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Out of a dog’s mouth will never come ivory tusks.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Outside noisy, inside empty.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Jade and men, both are sharpened by bitter tools.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Judge not the horse by his saddle.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Just as tall trees are known by their shadows, so are good men known by their enemies.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Just scales and full measure injure no man.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Kill a chicken before a monkey.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Kill one to warn a hundred.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Kill the chicken to frighten the monkey.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Know thyself to know others, for heart beats like heart.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Nature is better than a middling doctor.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Tragedy
Tragedy happiness and wisdom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Never answer a letter while you are angry.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Never try to catch two frogs with one hand.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Never write a letter while you are angry.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

No matter how stout one beam, it cannot support a house.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

No matter how tall the mountain, it cannot block out the sun.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

No medicines can cure the vulgar man.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

No melon-peddler cries: Bitter melons! No wine-dealer says: Sour wine!<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

No wind, no waves.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Not wine . . . men intoxicate themselves; not vice . . . men entice themselves.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Paper can’t wrap up a fire.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Patience and the mulberry leaf become a silk robe.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry becomes silk.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Peace and tranquility are a thousand gold pieces.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Pick your inn before the dark; get on your road before the dawn.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Plan your year in the spring, your day at dawn.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Pleasures are shallow, sorrows deep.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Politeness wins the confidence of princes.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Practice no vice because it’s trivial; neglect no virtue because it’s so.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Present to the eye, present to the mind.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Priests return to the temple, merchants to the shop.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Pure gold does not fear the smelter.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Rather once cry your heart out than always sigh.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Rats know the way of rats.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Reform a gambler . . . cure leprosy.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Reshape one’s foot to try to fit into a new shoe.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Rich men accumulate money; the poor accumulate years.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Riches add to the house, virtues to the man.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Riches: a dream in the night; fame: a gull floating on water.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Rivers and mountains may change; human nature, never.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Rotten wood cannot be carved.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Runaway son, a shining jewel; runaway daughter, tarnished.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Scholars talk books, butchers talk pigs.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Schoolmaster, stick to your books; farmer, to your pigs.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Seeking fish? Don’t dive in the pond; go home and get a net.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Sending charcoal in the snow is better than adding flowers to a brocade.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Silly toad: planning a meal of goose!<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Sit atop the mountain and watch the tigers fight.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Slow in word, swift in deed.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Small ills are the fountains of most of our groans. Men trip not on mountains, they stumble on stones.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Small men think they are small; great men never know they are great.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

So long as a man is angry he cannot be in the right.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Some prefer carrots while others like cabbage.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Sorrow is the child of too much joy.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Sour, sweet, bitter, pungent, all must be tasted.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Steal a bell with one’s ears covered.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Swiftest horse cannot overtake the word once spoken.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

The best soldiers are not warlike.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is today.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

The black dog gets the food; the white dog gets the blame.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

The broad-minded see the truth in different religions; the narrow-minded see only the differences.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

The careful foot can walk anywhere.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

The court official in one life has seven rebirths as a beggar.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

The day your horse dies and your money’s lost, your relatives change to strangers.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

The delicacy of the feast is the learned guest.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

The diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor the man perfected without trials.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Chinese
Chinese proverb on smile<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The emperor is rich, but he cannot buy one extra year.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

The error of one moment becomes the sorrow of a whole life.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

The father in praising the son extols himself.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

The first half of the night, think of your own faults; the second half, the faults of others.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

The happiness in your pocket, don’t spend it all.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

The house with an old grandparent harbors a jewel.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

The loftiest towers rise from the ground.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

The longer the night lasts, the more our dreams will be.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

The man who comes with a talk about others has himself an ax to grind.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

The man who does not learn is dark, like one walking in the night.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

The mind is the emperor of the body.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

The net of heaven is large and wide, but it lets nothing through.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

The older the ginger, the more it bites.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

The one who first resorts to violence shows that he has no more arguments.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

The one who plants the tree is not the one who will enjoy its shade.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

The one who understands does not speak, the one who speaks does not understand.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

The palest ink is better than the best memory.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

The path of duty lies in what is near at hand, but men seek for it in what is remote.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

The pen can kill a man; no knife is needed.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

The peony is beautiful, yet it is supported by a stalk.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

The pine stays green in winter, wisdom in hardship.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

The remedy for dirt is soap and water. The remedy for dying is living.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

The rich man plans for tomorrow, the poor man for today.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

The saving man becomes the free man.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

The sheep has no choice when in the jaws of the wolf.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

The water that bears the ship is the same that engulfs it.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

The weasel comes to say “Happy New Year!” to the chickens.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

The Yangtze never runs backwards; man recaptures not his youth.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no economy in going to bed early to save candles if the result is twins.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

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 night when you are asleep.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Those who despise money will eventually sponge on their friends.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men’s clothes.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Though you live near a forest, do not waste firewood.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

To believe in one’s dreams is to spend all of one’s life asleep.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

To forget one’s ancestor’s is to be a brook without a source, a tree without root.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

To go beyond is as bad as to fall short.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

To listen well is as powerful a means of influence as to talk well and is as essential to all true conversation.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

To meet an old friend in a distant country is like the delight of rain after a long drought.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

To open a shop is easy, to keep it open is an art.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

To persecute the unfortunate is like throwing stones on one fallen into a well.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

To talk much and arrive nowhere is the same as climbing a tree to catch a fish.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

To understand your parents’ love bear your own children.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

To violate the law is the same crime in the emperor as in the subject.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Chinese
Chinese words of wisdom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Transgressions should never be forgiven a third time.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Two barrels of tears will not heal a bruise.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Two good talkers are not worth one good listener.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Take a second look; it costs you nothing.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Talent counts thirty percent; appearance counts seventy.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Talk does not cook rice.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Temptation wrings integrity even as the thumbscrew twists a man’s fingers.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Thatch your roof before rainy weather, dig your well before you become parched with thirst.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

The best cure for drunkenness is whilst sober to observe a drunken person.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

The best memory is not so firm as faded ink.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Unplowed fields make hollow bellies; unread books make hollow minds.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Use power to curb power.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Vicious as a tigress can be, she never eats her own cubs.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Virtue becomes a wife; beauty becomes a concubine.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Virtue is not left to stand alone.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Virtue never dwells alone, it always has neighbors.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Virtue practiced to be seen is not real virtue; vice which fears to be seen is real vice.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Virtue: climbing a hill; vice: running down.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Virtuous for ten years is still not enough; evil for one day is too much already.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Wait long, strike fast.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Waiting for a rabbit to hit upon a tree and be killed in order to catch it.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Walls have ears.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Want a thing long enough, and you don’t.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Water and words are easy to pour but impossible to recover.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Water that has reached its level does not flow.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

We all like lamb; each has a different way of cooking it.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

We are not so much concerned if you are slow as when you come to a halt.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

We can study until old age and still not finish.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

We forget even incense in easy times; come hard times, we embrace the Buddha’s feet.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Weaving a net is better than praying for fish at the edge of the water.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

What is whispered in your ear is often heard a hundred miles off.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

What the eye sees not, the heart craves not.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

What you cannot avoid, welcome.<\/span>
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Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

When a large vessel has opened a way it is easy for a small one to follow.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

When the cat is gone, the mice come out to stretch.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

When the mantis hunts the locust, he forgets the shrike that’s hunting him.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

When the tree dies, the grass underneath withers.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

When the tree falls, the shadow flies.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

When the tree waves, wind is stirring.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

When you bow, bow low.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

When you fall into a pit, you either die or get out.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

When you have only two dollars left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a rose with the other.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

When you say one thing, the clever person understands three.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

When you want to test the depths of a stream, don’t use both feet.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

When your horse in on the brink of a precipice, it is too late to pull the reins.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Whenever the water rises, the boat will rise too.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Who is not satisfied with himself will grow; who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Who rides a tiger cannot dismount.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Who teaches me for a day is my father for a lifetime.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

With money one may command devils; without it, one cannot even summon a man.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

With reason one can travel the world over; without it, it is hard to move an inch.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Without rice, even the cleverest housewife cannot cook.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Women can hold up half the sky.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Yellow gold is plentiful compared to white-haired friends.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

You burn incense before the god, and then topple him.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

You can hardly make a friend in a year, but you can easily offend one in an hour.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

You can’t catch a cub without going into the tiger’s den.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

You can’t clap with one hand only.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

You can’t expect both ends of a sugar cane to be as sweet.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

You can’t fill your belly painting pictures of bread.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

You cannot draw white cloth from a dying vat.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

You cannot hook trout? Try digging clams.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

You must have crossed the river before you may tell the crocodile he has bad breath.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

You must scale the mountains if you would view the plain.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

You think you’ve lost your horse? Who knows, he may bring a whole herd back to you someday.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

You want no one to know it? Then don’t do it.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

You won’t help shoots grow by pulling them up higher.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Your fingers can’t be of the same length.<\/span>
\nProverb, (Chinese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Read also Chinese proverbs and sayings of great wisdom from letter A to L<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

You can also read the following post on proverbs:<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.english-culture.com\/origin-of-proverbs\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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Proverbs from China, old saying of Chinese great wisdom from letter M to Y The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136,202,1220,1127,143,831,146,11,190,192,16,1977,3896],"tags":[2525,410,411,416,166,287,1391,93],"class_list":["post-153050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-creativity","category-culture","category-history","category-language","category-learning","category-life","category-literature","category-love","category-people","category-philosophy","category-proverbs","category-society","tag-china","tag-chinese","tag-confucius","tag-lao-tzu","tag-literature-2","tag-people-2","tag-proverbs","tag-wisdom"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t