Some of the famous ancient Chinese proverbs /saying/quotes:
The swiftest horse can’t overtake a word once spoken*
1.Before telling secrets on the road, look in the bushes
2.A bad word whispered echoes a hundred miles*
3.In a flood of words, surely some mistakes*
4.A sharp tongue or pen can kill without a knife*
5.If the first words fail, ten thousand will then not avail
6.Watching chess games in silence. .a superior person*
7.The judge with seven reasons states only one in court
8.If you want no one to know, don’t do it*
9.If you want your dinner, don’t insult the cook*
10.Honest scales and full measure hurt no one*
11.Divide an orange–it tastes just as good
12.If you always give you will always have
13.Better lean and good than fat and evil
14.To build it took one hundred years; to destroy it one day
15.To know the road ahead, ask those returning*
16.Touch black paint, have black fingers
17.To succeed, consult three old people
18.If you hurry through long days, you will hurry through short years
19.Touch black paint, have black fingers
20.The ripest fruit falls by itself*
21.Simple to open a shop; another thing to keep it open
22.What you don’t see, you don’t desire*
23.Neither fortunes nor flowers last forever*
24.An inch of gold can’t buy an inch of time
25.Don’t waste your hour–the sun sets soon
26.My life–a candle in the wind. . . frost on the leaves*
27.Nurture the plant one year–ten days of flowers
28.Slow work–fine work
29.At birth we bring our nothing; at death, we leave with the same*
30.A king’s riches cannot buy an extra year*
31.Beat the drum inside the house to spare the neighbors
32.Climb the mountains to see lowlands
33.Laws control a lesser person; right conduct controls a greater one*
34.Forget the favors given; remember those received
35.A careful foot can step anywhere*
36.Stare at the profit and step in the pitfall
37.In bed be wife and husband, in the hall each other’s honored guest
38.To stop drinking, study a drunkard while you are sober
39.If Heaven made someone, earth can find some use for them
40.Without sorrows, no one becomes a saint
41.The pine stays green in winter. . . wisdom in hardship
42.Three feet of ice was not frozen in a day*
43.With virtue you can’t be completely poor; without it, you can’t be truly rich*
44.Determination tempers the sword of your character*
45.Stout men, not stout walls, make the stout city
46.To be heard afar, bang your gong on a hilltop
47.Great doubts, deep wisdom. . . small doubts, little wisdom
48.To know others, know yourself first*
49.His virtues exceed his talents–a superior man *
50.When the waters drop, the rocks appear*
51.O eggs, don’t fight with rocks*
52.Easier to rule a nation than a child*
53.To have principles first have courage
54.Blame yourself as you blame others; forgive others as you forgive yourself
55.The wise listen to her mind, the foolish to the mob*
56.A whitewashed crow soon shows black again
57.Watch over workers at their labors, not their meals*
58.Many a good face under a ragged hat
59.Dogs have no prejudice against the poor
60.If Heaven made someone, earth can find some use for them*
61.Tile tossed over the wall. . . who knows where it will fall?*
62.No horse can wear two saddles *
63.While you are bargaining, conceal your coin
64.No guests at home, no hosts abroad
65.”I heard” is good; “I saw” is better
66.We can study until old age. . . and still not finish
67.A good teacher. . . better than a barrowful of books
68.Teachers open the door; you enter by yourself