Quotes from Chinese proverb

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

When you have only two pennies left in the world buy a loaf of bread with one. and a lily with the other.

If a man plants melons he will reap melons if he sows beans he will reap beans.

A man's fortune must first be changed from within.

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.

You have two lives the second one begins when you realize you only have one

He that is afraid to shake the dice will never throw a six.

Keep a green tree alive in your heart, and a songbird may come to sing there.

Behind an able man there are always other able men.

Misfortune comes to all men.

Blessings never come in pairs; misfortunes never come alone.

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.

Beat your child once a day. If you don't know why, he does.

A bird can roost but on one branch. A mouse can drink no more than its fill from a river.

Better be too credulous than too skeptical

Always take an emergency leisurely.

Don't curse the darkness - light a candle.

It is easier to visit friends than to live with them.

Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.

Words are mere bubbles of water, but deeds are drops of gold.

He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg.

One cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water, one pops up while you try to hold down the other.

Never try to catch two frogs with one hand.

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.