Chinese Proverbs on Life (28 Proverbs)
- A wise man is able to adapt to the surprises of life as water to the decanter it is poured in.
(Chinese Proverb)
- All of life is a dream walking, all of death is a going home.
(Chinese Proverb)
- If you want your children to have a peaceful life, let them suffer a little hunger and a little coldness.
(Chinese Proverb)
- It is better to save your innocence at the cost of your honor, than to save your country at the cost of your life.
(Chinese Proverb)
- Life can never give security, it can only promise opportunity.
(Chinese Proverb)
- Life unfolds on a sheet called time and once finished is gone forever.
(Chinese Proverb)
- One moment of patience may ward off a great disaster; one moment of impatience may ruin a whole life.
(Chinese Proverb)
- Sometimes life can be as bitter as dragon tears
(Chinese Proverb)
- A life with love is happy; a life for love is foolish.
(Chinese Proverb)
- Four things come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.
(Chinese Proverb)
- A smile will gain you ten more years of life.
(Chinese Proverb)
- A moment of patience can prevent a great disaster and a moment of impatience can ruin a whole life.
(Chinese Proverb)
- A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every passerby leaves a mark.
(Chinese Proverb)
- The error of one moment becomes the sorrow of a whole life.
(Chinese Proverb)
- Respect for ones parents is the highest duty of civil life.
(Chinese Proverb)
- Man fools himself. He prays for a long life, and he fears an old age.
(Chinese Proverb)
- Life itself cannot give you joy/ Unless you really will it./ Life just gives you time and space -- It's up to you to fill it.
(Chinese Proverb)
- Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends whom we choose.
(Chinese Proverb)
- Life is like a candle in the wind; like frost on the roof; like the wriggling of the fish in the pan.
(Chinese Proverb)
- It is better to save your innocence at the expense of your honor than your country at the expense of your life.
(Chinese Proverb)
- If you would be happy for a week, take a wife; if you would be happy for a month, kill a pig; but if you would be happy all your life, plant a garden.
(Chinese Proverb)
- If life is fulfilled we go away with empty hands.
(Chinese Proverb)
- He who thinks too much about every step he takes will stay on one leg all his life.
(Chinese Proverb)
- He who does not regularly put on clean socks will never get used to circus life.
(Chinese Proverb)
- The most important thing in life is to be buried well.
(Chinese Proverb)
- To have saved one human life is worth more than to build a pagoda with seven stories.
(Chinese Proverb)
- To be able to curse once a day improves happiness and lengthens life.
(Chinese Proverb)
- Life isn't all beer and skittles.
(Chinese Proverb)
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