You can lean on a bamboo stick, but not on a rope.
More Chinese Proverbs:
Girls marry to please parents, widows to please themselves.Chinese
Do not allow the sheep to die for a halfpenny of tar.
Chinese
The Yangtze never runs backwards; man recaptures not his youth.
Chinese
The man will surely fail, who dares delay, And lose to-morrow that has lost to-day.
Chinese
Better die ten years early than live ten years poor.
Chinese
Be on a horse when you go in search of a better one.
Chinese