Chinese Proverbs
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.
The night hides a world, but reveals a universe.
The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Those who say it can not be done, should not interrupt those doing it.
I dreamed a thousand new paths. I woke and walked my old one.
The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now.
Before you prepare to improve the world, look around your own house three times.
Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
The journey is the reward.
Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head.
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.
Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.
Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.
Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.
A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.
