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.
I dreamed a thousand new paths. I woke and walked my old one.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.
The journey is the reward.
Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.
Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.
Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head.
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.
An inch of time cannot be bought with an inch of gold.
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.
I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
The saving man becomes the free man.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
