These Chinese Proverbs have been extracted from the EBook "1717 Chinese Proverbs" compiled by Savio DSilva. There are 1717 Chinese Proverbs in simple point form presented to you in this EBook.
Here then are the 1717 Chinese Proverbs...
01. A bad man talks about what he has eaten and drunk, a good man about what he has seen and heard.
02. A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.
03. A bad workman blames his tools.
04. A bar of iron continually ground becomes a needle.
05. A base person often thinks of a man of honor as mean as himself.
06. A beautiful bird is the only kind we cage.
07. A beautiful flower is incomplete without its leaves.
08. A big tree attracts the gale.
09. A bird can roost but on one branch, a mouse can drink not more than its fill from a river.
10. A bird does not sing because he has the answer to something, he sings because he has a song.
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11. A bird in your hand is worth more than 100 in the forest.
12. A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.
13. A blind cat catches only a dead rat.
14. A book holds a house of gold.
15. A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
16. A book tightly shut is but a block of paper.
17. A bride received into the home is like a horse that you have just bought; you break her in by constantly mounting her and continually beating her.
18. A bridle for the tongue is a necessary piece of furniture.
19. A Buddha made of mud crossing a river cannot protect even himself.
20. A chick that will grow into a cock can be spotted the very day it hatches.
21. A chicken is hatched even from such a well-sealed thing as an egg.
22. A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every passerby leaves a mark.
23. A child's words have no guile.
24. A clear conscience is the greatest armor.
25. A clever doctor never treats himself.
26. A clever person turns great troubles into little ones, and little ones into none at all.
27. A client twixt his attorney and counselor is like a goose twixt two foxes.
28. A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.
29. A cloth is not woven from a single thread.
30. A country where flowers are priced so as to make them a luxury has yet to learn the first principles of civilization.
31. A courageous foe is better than a cowardly friend.
32. A courtesy much entreated is half recompensed.
33. A courtyard common to all will be swept by none.
34. A crisis is an opportunity riding the dangerous wind.
35. A curious woman is capable of turning around the rainbow just to see what is on the other side.
36. A day of grief lasts longer than a month of joy.
37. A day of reading is a day of gain; a day without reading is ten days of loss.
38. A day of sorrow is longer than a month of joy.
39. A dead songbird gives us no meat.
40. A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect.
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41. A dictionary can only be read when it is printed.
42. A dish of carrot hastily cooked may still have soil not cleaned off the vegetable.
43. A dog in a kennel barks at his fleas -- a hunting dog does not feel them.
44. A dog in desperation will leap over a wall.
45. A dog shows affection even to a poor family.
46. A dog will jump over a wall when cornered.
47. A dog won't forsake his master because of poverty; a son never deserts his mother because of her homely appearance.
48. A donkey has limited abilities.
49. A dragon will be teased by a shrimp in a shoal water; a tiger will be bullied by a dog on a treeless plain.
50. A dream that lasts merely a millet soup's cooking time.
51. A dried fish cannot be used as a cat's pillow.
52. A drop of sweat spent in a drill is a drop of blood saved in a battle.
53. A dry finger cannot pick up salt.
54. A fall into a ditch makes you wiser.
55. A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.
56. A false report rides post.
57. A foot can be shorter while an inch can be longer.
58. A fierce dog ruins a liquor store business.
59. A filthy mouth will not utter decent language.
60. A fire cannot be wrapped with paper.
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61. A flea on the top of a bald head - it is only too apparent.
62. A flower cannot blossom without sunshine nor a garden without love.
63. A flower you plant may not necessarily bloom; but the seed of a tree you happen to drop may grow into a forest.
64. A fly before his own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.
65. A flying moth throws itself into a fire.
66. A fool admires himself most when he has done foolish things.
67. A fool in a hurry drinks tea with a fork.
68. A fool judges people by the presents they give him.
69. A fool's heart is found in his mouth.
70. A fox barks not when he would steal the lamb.
71. A fox borrows the tiger's might.
72. A fragrant bloom is not necessarily a beautiful flower; an orator may not be a crackerjack.
73. A friend - one soul, two bodies.
74. A friend made is a road paved; an enemy created is a wall built.
75. A full bottle makes no sound; a half-bottle sloshes around.
76. A full purse never lacks friends.
77. A full sack will take a clout o' the side.
78. A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man made perfect without trials.
79. A girl apes her neighbor's frowning.
80. A girl receives, a widow takes her husband.
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81. A girl that blushes too much, knows too much.
82. A good bee never lands on a fallen flower.
83. A good breakfast cannot take the place of the evening meal.
84. A good client doesn't change shop in three years, a good shop doesn't change clients in three years.
85. A good dog does not bite a chicken and a good man does not hit his wife.
86. A good dog does not block the road.
87. A good drum does not have to be beaten hard.
88. A good fortune may forebode a bad luck, which may in turn disguise a good fortune.
89. A good memory is not as good as a little ink.
90. A good neighbor is a found treasure.
91. A good storyteller must be able to lie a little.
92. A governor may commit arson while the governed are not allowed to light a lamp.
93. A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence.
94. A guilty conscience feels continual fear.
95. A hasty man drinks his tea with a fork.
96. A hobbling cat is better than a fast horse when rats swarm the palace.
97. A horse cannot gain weight if not fed with extra fodder during the night; a man cannot become wealthy without earnings apart from his regular salaries.
98. A horse with two masters is always skinny; the ship with two captains sinks.
99. A hundred "no's" are less painful than one insincere "yes".
100. A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home.
