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   Chinese Proverbs

If you are planning for one year, grow rice. If you are planning for 20 years, grow trees. If you are planning for centuries, grow men. -Chinese proverb

When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. -Chinese Proverb

The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. -Chinese proverb

Learning is weightless, a treasure you can always carry easily. -Chinese Proverb

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. - Chinese Proverb

A bit of perfume always clings to the hand that gives the rose. -Chinese proverb

Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back. -Chinese proverb

He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes. -Chinese Proverb

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. -Chinese Proverb

A book is a garden carried in the pocket. -Chinese proverb

A closed mind is like a closed book: just a block of wood. -Chinese Proverb

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown. -Chinese proverb

When you want to test the depths of a stream, don't use both feet. -Chinese Proverb

A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives the rose. -Chinese proverb

In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter. -Chinese proverb

A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect. -Chinese proverb

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid one hundred days of sorrow. - Chinese Proverb

Practice no vice because it's trivial. Neglect no virtue because it's so. -Chinese proverb

To understand your parents' love, bear your own children. -Chinese saying

The palest ink is better than the best memory. -Chinese proverb

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. -Chinese Proverb

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. ~ Chinese Proverb ~

After three days without reading, talk becomes flavorless. Chinese proverb

If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come. -Chinese Proverb

It is not economical to go to bed early to save the candles if the result is twins.- Chinese Proverb

If you always give you will always have. -Chinese Proverb

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.-Chinese Proverb

Talk doesn't cook rice. -Chinese proverb

The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. -Chinese proverb

Of the thirty-six ways of avoiding disaster, running away is best. -- Chinese Proverb

Patience is power; with time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes silk. -- Chinese proverb

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names. - Chinese Proverb

To talk goodness is not good... Only to do it is. -Chinese Proverb

There are two perfect men; one dead, and the other unborn. -Chinese proverb

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. -Chinese proverb

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes. Chinese Proverb

If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. -Chinese Proverb

 If you plant soybeans, you will not harvest melons Chinese Proverb

Judge not the horse by his saddle. -Chinese Proverb

There are three truths: my truth, your truth, and the truth. -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

Swords and guns have no eyes. -Chinese proverb