Sayings of Chinese Origin
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
Chinese Proverb – [Anger]


If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.
Chinese Proverb – [Money]


If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.
Chinese Proverb – [Character]


If you suspect a man, don't employ him, and if you employ him, don't suspect him.
Chinese Proverb – [Hiring]


If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people.
Chinese Proverb – [Prosperity]


If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap. If you want happiness for a day — go fishing. If you want happiness for a month — get married. If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime — help someone else.
Chinese Proverb – [Happiness]


If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
Chinese Proverb – [Words]


If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.
Chinese Proverb – [Advice]


In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.
Chinese Proverb – [Family]


In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter.
Chinese Proverb – [Promises]


Insanity is doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a different outcome.
Chinese Proverb – [Insanity]


It is later than you think.
Chinese Proverb – [Time and Time Management]


Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
Chinese Proverb – [Learning]


Life is a dream walking death is a going home.
Chinese Proverb – [Death and Dying]


Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head.
Chinese Proverb – [Family]


Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
Chinese Proverb – [Ask]


Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down.
Chinese Proverb – [Simplicity]


Of all the thirty-six alternatives, running away is best.
Chinese Proverb – [Caution]


One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him.
Chinese Proverb – [Complaints and Complaining]


One joy scatters a hundred grieves.
Chinese Proverb – [Joy]

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