Author Topic: Chinese Proverbs  (Read 2984 times)

This is ripped from an email I got. I think their interesting (no this isn't a hint, just something I'd like to show)


A little impatience will spoil great plans.

Even a hare will bite when it is cornered.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

If you bow at all, bow low.

A smile will gain you ten more years of life.

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.

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.


If you want, you can add some of your own. Just seemed like an interesting thing I'd like to share.

You will get new Clothes.

    - Fortune Cookie

Man who run in front of car, get tired



He who acts a fool, earns pity.

cool. did you finish those banners yet?

"Eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" Confucius

Smarter than America, we are.

Drop watch in toilet, have stuffty time.

Man who sleep with itchy butt wake up with smelly finger.

It's better to have a dog without teeth than a dog without a nose.

Learn to Masturbate; Come in handy.

I'm looking for that macro.

Learn to Masturbate; Come in handy.

I'm looking for that macro.