Quotes from Chinese proverb

He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors.

Tiger father begets tiger son.

Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends.

It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy.

If Heaven made him — earth can find some use for him.

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.

Gold cannot be pure, and people cannot be perfect.

Water is the mother of tea, a teapot its father, and fire the teacher.

What is told in the ear of a man is often heard 100 miles away.

A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary.

Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men.

Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape one hundred days of sorrow.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.

A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses.

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now.

Man stands for long time with mouth open before roast duck flies in.

The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread.

If fortune smiles, who doesn't? If fortune doesn't, who does?

Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still.

Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden.

The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it.