"A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song."
--Chinese Proverb
Topic: Home
"A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home."
--Chinese Proverb
Topic: Progress
"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."
--Chinese Proverb
"Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still."
--Chinese Proverb
"Do not employ handsome servants."
--Chinese Proverb
"Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet."
--Chinese Proverb
Topic: Teaching
"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life."
--Chinese Proverb
Topic: Education
"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
Topic: Will
"Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes."
--Chinese Proverb
Topic: Happiness
"Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring."
--Chinese Proverb
Topic: Questions
"He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever."
--Chinese Proverb
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."
--Chinese Proverb
Topic: Conscience
"He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes."
--Chinese Proverb
Topic: Anger
"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow."
--Chinese Proverb
"If you bow at all, bow low."
--Chinese Proverb
Topic: Vice
"If you don't want anyone to know it, don't do it."
--Chinese Proverb
"Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve."
--Chinese Proverb
Topic: Home
"No one can say of this house, "There is no trouble here.""
--Chinese Proverb
Topic: Patience
"Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes silk."
--Chinese Proverb
"Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind."
--Chinese Proverb
Topic: Trifles
"Small ills are the fountains of most of our groans. Men trip not on mountains, they stumble on stones."
--Chinese Proverb
Topic: Variety
"Sour, sweet, bitter, pungent, all must be tasted."
--Chinese Proverb
"Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself."
--Chinese Proverb
"Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself."
--Chinese Proverb
Topic: Name
"The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names."
--Chinese Proverb
"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials."
--Chinese Proverb
Topic: Victory
"The greatest conquerer is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow."
--Chinese Proverb
"The palest ink is better than the best memory."
--Chinese Proverb
Topic: Friendship
"To attract good fortune, spend a new penny on an old friend, share an oldpleasure with a new friend and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing hisname on the wings of a dragon."
--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
Topic: Discontent
"Who is not satisfied with himself will grow; who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things."
--Chinese Proverb
Topic: Time
"With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown."
--Chinese Proverb
