Quotes from Chinese proverb

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

At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons.

The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor.

When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.

One step at a time is good walking.

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into none at all.

The superior doctor prevents sickness; The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; The inferior doctor treats actual sickness;

When a man is crazy about a woman only she can cure him.

What is told into the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away.

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.

A good fortune may forbode a bad luck, which may in turn disguise a good fortune.

Don't waste good iron for nails or good men for soldiers

The soldier who retreated 50 paces jeered at the one who retreated 100 paces

A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Whatever will satisfy hunger is good food.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

To be damned by the devil is to be truly blessed.

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

A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water.

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

One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark.

Dig the well before you are thirsty.