Chinese Proverbs (1813 Proverbs)
- The Yangtze never runs backwards; man recaptures not his youth.
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- To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
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- To be for one day entirely at leisure is to be for one day an immortal.
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- Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.
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- The Yangtse never runs backwards; man recaptures not his youth.
(Chinese Proverb)
- To know and know that you know, not to know and know that you don't know, that is to know.
(Chinese Proverb)
- To be able to curse once a day improves happiness and lengthens life.
(Chinese Proverb)
- There's many a good man to be found under a shabby hat.
(Chinese Proverb)
- The world is our house. Keep it clean.
(Chinese Proverb)
- To have saved one human life is worth more than to build a pagoda with seven stories.
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- 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)
- There is no room for two dragons in one pond.
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- The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.
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- To have beautiful servant girls is a threat to good marriages.
(Chinese Proverb)
- Three times an early rise makes a whole day.
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- There is no economy in going to bed early to save candles if the result is twins.
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- The woman who deceives her husband makes her lover swear never to be unfaithful to her.
(Chinese Proverb)
- To go beyond is as bad as to fall short.
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- Three glasses of wine end a hundred quarrels.
(Chinese Proverb)
- There is no better sale than when you give a true friend what he needs.
(Chinese Proverb)
- The wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool does from his friends.
(Chinese Proverb)
- To serve a prince is like sleeping with a tiger.
(Chinese Proverb)
- To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping.
(Chinese Proverb)
- Though you live near a forest, do not waste firewood.
(Chinese Proverb)
- There is gossip every day, but if no one listens anymore the gossip will die.
(Chinese Proverb)
- The wise man forgets insults as the ungrateful forget benefits.
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- To pretend to satisfy one's desires with worldly goods is like using straw to put out a fire.
(Chinese Proverb)
- To forget one's ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree without a root.
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- Though the emperor be rich, he cannot buy one extra year.
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- There is a time to fish and a time to dry the nets.
(Chinese Proverb)
- To persecute the unfortunate is like throwing stones on one fallen into a well.
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- To find out about the road ahead, ask those coming back.
(Chinese Proverb)
- Though talking face to face, their hearts are a thousand miles apart.
(Chinese Proverb)
- There belongs more than whistling to going to plough.
(Chinese Proverb)
- When your neighbor walks through your orchard, the polite thing to do is to ignore it.
(Chinese Proverb)
- When the water falls the stone becomes visible.
(Chinese Proverb)
- When a woman talks to you, smile but do not listen.
(Chinese Proverb)
- We can study until old age and still not finish.
(Chinese Proverb)
- Unles we change direction, we are likely to wind up where we are headed.
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- When your horse in on the brink of a precipice, it is too late to pull the reins.
(Chinese Proverb)
- When the tree dies, the grass underneath withers.
(Chinese Proverb)
- When a man is crazy about a woman only she can cure him.
(Chinese Proverb)
- We are not so much concerned if you are slow as when you come to a halt.
(Chinese Proverb)
- Unjustly obtained wealth is as snow sprinkled with hot water.
(Chinese Proverb)
- When you want to test the depths of a stream, don't use both feet.
(Chinese Proverb)
- When the mantis hunts the locust, he forgets the shrike that's hunting him.
(Chinese Proverb)
- When a large vessel has opened a way it is easy for a small one to follow.
(Chinese Proverb)
- We all like lamb; each has a different way of cooking it.
(Chinese Proverb)
- Two good talkers are not worth one good listener.
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- When you say one thing, the clever person understands three.
(Chinese Proverb)
- When the lamps in the house are lighted it is like the flowering of lotus on the lake.
(Chinese Proverb)
- When a king makes a mistake, all the people suffer.
(Chinese Proverb)
- Water that has reached its level does not flow.
(Chinese Proverb)
- Two barrels of tears will not heal a bruise.
(Chinese Proverb)
- When you have read a book for the first time, you get to know a friend; read it for a second time and you meet an old friend.
(Chinese Proverb)
- When the heart is at ease, the body is healthy.
(Chinese Proverb)
- When a finger points at the moon, the imbecile looks at the finger.
(Chinese Proverb)
- Water from far away is no good for a fire close by.
(Chinese Proverb)
- Treat thoughts as guests and wishes as children.
(Chinese Proverb)
- When you are very angry, don't go to a lawyer; when you are very hungry, don't be a poet.
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- When the deal is done, discuss it no more; it is difficult to collect dispersed water.
(Chinese Proverb)
- When a finger is pointing at the moon, the fool looks at the finger.
(Chinese Proverb)
- Water does not stick to the mountain, and vengeance does not stick to a big heart.
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- Transgressions should never be forgiven a third time.
(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 the cat is gone, the mice come out to stretch.
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- What the eye sees not, the heart craves not.
(Chinese Proverb)
- Water can do without fishes, fishes cannot do without water.
(Chinese Proverb)
- Too often do we waste time chasing a gust of wind or grasping at shadows.
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- When you fall into a pit, either you get out or die.
(Chinese Proverb)
- When the boat reaches mid-stream, it is too late to stop the leak.
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- What is whispered in your ear is often heard a hundred miles off.
(Chinese Proverb)
- Water and words are easy to pour but impossible to recover.
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- Too much spirit shows a lack of it.
(Chinese Proverb)
- What is told into a man's ear is often heard a hundred miles away.
(Chinese Proverb)
- When you drink water, remember where the mountain spring is.
(Chinese Proverb)
- When someone gives you a drop of water reward him with a never ending source.
(Chinese Proverb)
- What is told in the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away.
(Chinese Proverb)
- Waiting for a rabbit to hit upon a tree and be killed in order to catch it.
(Chinese Proverb)
- To violate the law is the same crime in the emperor as in the subject.
(Chinese Proverb)
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