|
|
A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.
Source: (Chinese)
|
A bad worker quarrels with his tools.
Source: (Chinese)
|
A bad workman blames his tools.
Source: (Chinese)
|
A bar of iron continually ground becomes a needle.
Source: (Chinese)
|
A beautiful bird is the only kind we cage.
Source: (Chinese)
|
A bird can roost but on one branch, a mouse can drink not more
than its fill from a river.
Source: (Chinese)
|
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because
it has a song.
Source: (Chinese)
|
A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you
roses.
Source: (Chinese)
|
A book holds a house of gold.
Source: (Chinese)
|
A bride received into the home is like a horse that you have just
bought; you break her in by constantly mounting her and
continually beating her.
Source: (Chinese)
|
A bridle for the tongue is a necessary piece of furniture.
Source: (Chinese)
|
A chicken is hatched even from such a well-sealed thing as an
egg.
Source: (Chinese)
|
A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every passerby
leaves a mark.
Source: (Chinese)
|
A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little
ones into none at all.
Source: (Chinese)
|
A client twixt his attorney and counselor is like a goose twixt
two foxes.
Source: (Chinese)
|
A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.
Source: (Chinese)
|
A cloth is not woven from a single thread.
Source: (Chinese)
|
A country where flowers are priced so as to make them a luxury
has yet to learn the first principles of civilization.
Source: (Chinese)
|
A courageous foe is better than a cowardly friend.
Source: (Chinese)
|
A courtesy much entreated is half recompensed.
Source: (Chinese)
|
A crisis is an opportunity riding the dangerous wind.
Source: (Chinese)
|
A day of sorrow is longer than a month of joy.
Source: (Chinese)
|
A dog in desperation will leap over a wall.
Source: (Chinese)
|
A dog won't forsake his master because of poverty; a son never
deserts his mother because of her homely appearance.
Source: (Chinese)
|
A fall into a ditch makes you wiser.
Source: (Chinese)
|
A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.
Source: (Chinese)
|
A false report rides post.
Source: (Chinese)
|
A flea on top of a bald head.
Source: (Chinese)
|
A flower cannot blossom without sunshine nor a garden without
love.
Source: (Chinese)
|
A fly before his own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next
field.
Source: (Chinese)
|
A frog in a well-shaft seeing the sky.
Source: (Chinese)
|
A fu purse never lacks freends.
Source: (Chinese)
|
A fu' sack will tak a clout o' the side.
Source: (Chinese)
|
A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man made perfect
without trials.
Source: (Chinese)
|
A good dog does not block the road.
Source: (Chinese)
|
A good neighbor is a found treasure.
Source: (Chinese)
|
A hasty man drinks his tea with a fork.
Source: (Chinese)
|
A hasty man never wants woe.
Source: (Chinese)
|
A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to
make a home.
Source: (Chinese)
|
A jade stone is useless before it is processed; a man is
good-for-nothing until he is educated.
Source: (Chinese)
|
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Source: (Chinese)
|
A maker of idols is never an idolater.
Source: (Chinese)
|
A man must despise himself before others will.
Source: (Chinese)
|
A man must make himself despicable before he is despised by
others.
Source: (Chinese)
|
A man must plough with such oxen as he hath.
Source: (Chinese)
|
A man need never revenge himself; the body of his enemy will be
brought to his own door.
Source: (Chinese)
|
A man's conversation is the mirror of his thoughts.
Source: (Chinese)
|
A man's discontent is his worst evil.
Source: (Chinese)
|
A nation's treasure: scholars.
Source: (Chinese)
|
A person who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the man
doing it.
Source: (Chinese)
|
