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Quotes by Chinese Proverb


The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.
– Chinese Proverb
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
– Chinese Proverb
If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.
– Chinese Proverb
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
– Chinese Proverb
With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
– Chinese Proverb
Sour, sweet, bitter, pungent, all must be tasted.
– Chinese Proverb
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
– Chinese Proverb
A bit of fragrance clings to the hand that gives flowers.
– Chinese Proverb
A book holds a house of gold.
– Chinese Proverb
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
– Chinese Proverb
A book tightly shut is but a block of paper.
– Chinese Proverb
A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.
– Chinese Proverb
A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections.
– Chinese Proverb
A filthy mouth will not utter decent language.
– Chinese Proverb
A fool judges people by the presents they give him.
– Chinese Proverb
A nation's treasure is in its scholars.
– Chinese Proverb
A rat who gnaws at a cat's tail invites destruction.
– Chinese Proverb
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
– Chinese Proverb
Be the first to the field and the last to the couch.
– Chinese Proverb
Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.
– Chinese Proverb
Dig the well before you are thirsty.
– Chinese Proverb
Do good, reap good; do evil, reap evil.
– Chinese Proverb
Do not employ handsome servants.
– Chinese Proverb
Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still.
– Chinese Proverb
Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.
– Chinese Proverb
Don't open a shop unless you like to smile.
– Chinese Proverb
Each generation will reap what the former generation has sown.
– Chinese Proverb
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
– Chinese Proverb
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
– Chinese Proverb
If you bow at all, bow low.
– Chinese Proverb
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
– Chinese Proverb
Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.
– Chinese Proverb
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
– Chinese Proverb
The palest ink is better than the best memory.
– Chinese Proverb
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
– Chinese Proverb
When you drink the water, remember the spring.
– 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