If you are patient in one moment of anger you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
Teachers open the door but you must enter by yourself.
Sour sweet bitter pungent all must be tasted.
The beginning of wisdom is calling things by their right names.
If you are rich you speak the truth if you are poor your words are but lies.
I dreamed a thousand new paths. I woke and walked my old one.
The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.
Do not remove a fly from your friend’s forehead with a hatchet.
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot.
If there is light in the soul There will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person There will be harmony in the house.
If there is harmony in the house There will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation There will be peace in the world.
A thorn defends the rose harming only those who would steal the blossom.
He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.
To believe in one’s dreams is to spend all of one’s life asleep.
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
The man who comes with a tale about others has himself an ax to grind.
If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through.
Only the dreamer shall understand realities though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
If you want year of prosperity grow grain. If you want years of prosperity grow trees. If you want years of prosperity grow people.
Be not afraid of growing slowly be afraid only of standing still.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
If you are planning for a year sow rice if you are planning for a decade plant trees if you are planning for a lifetime educate people.
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
Climb mountains to see lowlands.
There is many a good man to be found under a shabby hat.
Practice no vice because it’s trivial. Neglect no virtue because it’s so.
If you stand straight Do not fear a crooked shadow.
Take a second look. It costs you nothing.
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man perfected without trials.
Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it.
I hear and I forget I see and I remember I do and I understand.
There are two perfect men one dead and the other unborn.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
With true friends…even water drunk together is sweet enough.
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
A wise man makes his own decisions an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Enough shovels of earth ……………………..a mountain. Enough pails of water ………………………….a river.
If you always give You will always have.
If you must play decide on three things at the start the rules of he game the stakes and the quitting time.
To know the road ahead ask those coming back.
If you see in your wine the reflection of a person not in your range of vision don’t drink it.
To attract good fortune spend a new coin on an old friend share an old pleasure with a new friend and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
Happiness is like a sunbeam which the least shadow intercepts while adversity is often as the rain of spring.
Enjoy yourself. It’s later than you think.
A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Judge not the horse by his saddle.
Never do anything standing that you can do sitting or anything sitting that you can do lying down.
Use power to curb power.
When you have only two pennies left in the world buy a loaf of bread with one and a lily with the other.
Listen to all plucking a feather from every passing goose but follow no one absolutely.
Never write a letter while you are angry.
After three days without reading talk becomes flavorless.
The man who does not learn is dark like one walking in the night.
One should be just as careful in choosing one’s pleasures as in avoiding calamities.
He who hurries can not walk with dignity.
Make happy those who are near and those who are far will come.
When you want to test the depths of a stream don’t use both feet.
In reviling it is not necessary to prepare a preliminary draft.
If you suspect a man don’t employ him and if ypu employ him don’t suspect him.
Forget injuries never forget kindnesses.
A closed mind is like a closed book just a block of wood.
When eating bamboo sprouts remember the man who planted them.
Do not employ handsome servants.
If heaven made him earth can find some use for him.
Married couples tell each other a thousand things without speech.
One dog barks at something the rest bark at him.
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
The palest ink is better than the best memory.
Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
If you bow at all bow low.
When you drink the water remember the spring.