Chinese Proverbs (1813 Proverbs)
- Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you will be like him yourself.
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- Dangerous enemies will meet again in narrow streets.
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- Better the cottage where one is merry than the palace where one weeps.
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- Before you beat a dog, find out who its master is.
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- Anger is always more harmful than the insult that caused it.
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- Add legs to the snake after you have finished drawing it.
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- A thriftless woman burns the entire candle looking for a match.
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- A red-nosed man may be a teetotaler, but will find no one to believe it.
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- A man must plough with such oxen as he hath.
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- A good storyteller must be able to lie a little.
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- A fool admires himself most when he has done foolish things.
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- A crisis is an opportunity riding the dangerous wind.
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- A bird does not sing because he has the answer to something, he sings because he has a song.
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- Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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- Flowers leave a part of their fragrance in the hands that bestow them.
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- Even criminals have their uses; they keep sleepyheads awake.
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- Easier to bend the body than the will.
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- Donkey's lips don't fit onto a horse's mouth.
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- Do not allow the sheep to die for a halfpenny of tar.
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- Curse your wife at evening, sleep alone at night.
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- Better the cold blast of winter than the hot breath of a pursuing elephant.
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- Because men do not like the cold, Heaven does not cause winter to cease.
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- An old friend met in a far country is like rain after drought.
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- Abroad we judge the dress; at home we judge the man.
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- A thousand pounds and a bottle of hay are all one at domesday.
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- A rat who gnaws at a cat's tail invites destruction.
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- A man must make himself despicable before he is despised by others.
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- A good memory is not so good as a little ink.
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- A fly before his own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.
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- A courageous foe is better than a cowardly friend.
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- A bird can roost but on one branch, a mouse can drink not more than its fill from a river.
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- Give a dog a tasty name and eat him.
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- Faith and dishonesty are other words for uselessness.
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- Even a tower a hundred yards tall has still its foundations on the ground.
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- Each generation will reap what the former generation has sown.
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- Dogs have so many friends because they wag their tails, not their tongues.
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- Do not all you can; spend not all you have; believe not all you hear; and tell not all you know.
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- Covet wealth, and want it; don't, and luck will grant it.
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- Better go to heaven in rags than to hell in embroidery.
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- Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.
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- An old bachelor compares life with a shirt button that hangs often by a thread.
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- A young woman with an old man is really someone else's woman.
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- A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds.
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- A person without a smiling face must never open a shop.
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- A man must despise himself before others will.
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- A good drum does not have to be beaten hard.
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- A flower cannot blossom without sunshine nor a garden without love.
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- A country where flowers are priced so as to make them a luxury has yet to learn the first principles of civilization.
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- A beautiful bird is the only kind we cage.
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- Give a beggar a bed and he'll repay you with a louse.
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- Fail to steal the chicken while it ate up your bait grain.
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- Even a sheep with the skin of a tiger is afraid of the wolf.
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- Drunkenness does not itself cause bad qualities but it does show them up clearly.
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- Do something good and your neighbor will never know, do something bad and they will hear about it a hundred miles away.
(Chinese Proverb)
- Do not add legs to the snake after you have finished drawing it.
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- Count not what is lost but what is left.
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- Better do a kindness near home than go far to burn incense.
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- Beautiful girls are seldom happy, intelligent boys are seldom beautiful.
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- An inch of time cannot be bought with an inch of gold.
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- A young branch takes on all the bends that one gives it.
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- A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.
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- A person with a bad name is already half-hanged.
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- A man is old when he takes the whole night to do what he used to do all night long.
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- A good dog does not block the road.
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- A filthy mouth will not utter decent language.
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- A cloth is not woven from a single thread.
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- A bar of iron continually ground becomes a needle.
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- Girls marry to please parents, widows to please themselves.
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- Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald.
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- Even a hare will bite when it is cornered.
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- Dream of a funeral and you hear of a marriage.
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- Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
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- Do good, reap good; do evil, reap evil.
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- Corporations have neither bodies to be punished nor souls to be damned.
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- Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
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- Beat your drum inside the house to spare the neighbors.
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- An ignorant doctor is no better than a murderer.
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- A word once spoken, an army of chariots cannot overtake it.
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- A teacher is someone who ploughs with his tongue to fill his little bowl with rice.
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- A person whose heart is not content is like a snake which tries to swallow an elephant.
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