Chinese Proverbs Quotes

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.

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

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

A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold.

A family in harmony will prosper in everything.

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.

It is harder to be poor without complaining than to be rich without boasting

A whitewashed crow soon shows black again

Politeness wins the confidence of princes

Every child born, has innate goodness.

Once bitten by a snake, one is afraid at the sight of a mere rope.

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.

Flowers leave some of their fragrance in the hand that bestows them

A country where flowers are priced so as to make them a luxury has yet to learn the first principles of civilization

When you drink from the stream remember the spring

Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring

Flowers leave some of their fragrance in the hand that bestows them.

Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men.

Whoever loves and understands a garden will find contentment within.

If you are thinking one year ahead, sow seed. If you are thinking ten years ahead, plant a tree. If you are thinking 100 years ahead, educate the people