|
|||||||
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|||||||
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.
Don't lie and you won't have to remember any.
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
The fish that escaped is the big one.
Think three times before you act.
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.
Give a man a fish, and you feed him a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.
A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections.
Don't laugh at him who is old; the same will assuredly happen to us.
You can't catch two frogs with one hand.
You raise your flowers for one year; you see them for but ten days.
It is easier to know how to do a thing than to do it.
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
A bird can roost but on one branch, a mouse can drink not more than its fill from a river.
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home.
A man without a smiling face must not open shop.
Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.
He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.
Even a good horse cannot wear two saddles.
Even though you have ten thousand fields, you can eat but one measure of rice a day.
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
He who rides the tiger can never dismount.
I dreamed a thousand new paths. I woke and walked my old one.
When the leopard dies, he leaves his skin; a man, his reputation.
It is easy to govern a kingdom but difficult to rule one's family.
When the messenger of death comes, all affairs cease.
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends whom we choose.
When you have tea and wine, you have many friends.
The best soldiers are not warlike.
There is no highroad to happiness or misfortune; every man brings them on himself.
To be a thousand days a ghost is not equal to being one day a man.
When fortune is good, you rule over the devils; when fortune is bad, they rule over you.
He who is afraid to shake the dice will never throw a six.
If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
When men speak of the future, the gods laugh.
