Chinese Proverb Quotes
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese Proverb
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
- Chinese Proverb
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month’s study of books.
- Chinese Proverb
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish very gently. sometimes attributed to Confucius.
- Chinese Proverb
Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men.
- Chinese Proverb
Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden.
- Chinese Proverb
I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
- Chinese Proverb
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
- Chinese Proverb
There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.
- Chinese Proverb
To open a shop is easy, to keep it open is an art
- Chinese Proverbs
When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.
- Chinese Proverb
Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.
- Chinese Proverb
Sorrow is the child of too much joy.
- Chinese Proverb
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid of standing still.
The journey is the reward.
- Chinese Proverb
One step at a time is good walking.
- Chinese Proverb
The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.
- Chinese Proverb
Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.
- Chinese Proverb
A journey of a thousand miles begins with but a single step.
- Chinese proverb
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend’s forehead.
- Chinese Proverb
Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.
- Chinese Proverb
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
- Chinese Proverb
Gold cannot be pure, and people cannot be perfect.
- Chinese Proverb
Tiger father begets tiger son.
- Chinese Proverb
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.
- Chinese Proverb
A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child.
- 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
Pleasure for an hour, a bottle of wine; pleasure for a year, marriage; pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.
- Chinese Proverb
One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life.
- Chinese Proverb
Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
- Chinese Proverb
To understand your parents’ love you must raise children yourself.
- Chinese Proverbs
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb
If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
- Chinese Proverb
It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy.
- Chinese Proverb
No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself.
- Chinese Proverb
The palest ink is better than the best memory.
- Chinese Proverb
If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.
- Chinese Proverb
Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold.
- Chinese Proverb
Kissing is like drinking salted water: you drink and your thirst increases.
- Chinese Proverb
Never write a letter while you are angry.
- Chinese Proverb


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