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Chinese Proverbs
Behave toward everyone as if receiving a guest. A fall into a ditch makes you wiser. Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one. He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. An inch of time is an inch of gold but you can't buy that inch of time with an inch of gold. A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. A book holds a house of gold. Talk does not cook rice. Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald. Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. A needle is not sharp at both ends. Distant water won't help to put out a fire close at hand. Small men think they are small; great men never know they are great. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. Want a thing long enough and you don't. Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking. Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself. I was angered, for I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet. Men trip not on mountains they trip on molehills. Do not want others to know what you have done? Better not have done it anyways. A man without a smiling face must not open shop. It is not the knowing that is difficult, but the doing. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. A bird can roost but on one branch, a mouse can drink not more than its fill from a river. ******* |
