Quotes from Chinese proverb

The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The next best time is now.

It is not economical to go to bed early to save the candles if the result is twins.

The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.

That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.

No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself.

Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Dig the well before you are thirsty.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

One happiness scatters a thousand sorrows.

A man who asks is a fool for five minutes. A man who never asks is a fool for life.

"Happiness is to hold flowers in both hands."

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

One never needs their humor as much as when they argue with a fool.

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

To listen well, is as powerful a means of influence as to talk well, and is as essential to all true conversation

If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through

Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one.

It is not economical to go to bed early to save the candles if the result is twins.

The frog does not drink up the pond in which it lives.

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

One joy scatters a hundred griefs.

He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever.

Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last.

Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.