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A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
Those who start badly do not end well.
A bad thing never dies.
It will last forever.
A bad workman always blames his tools.
People who don't know how to punt blame river bends / people who are stupid blame knives for bluntness.
A bird in the hand is worth than two in the bush.
A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush.
A boaster and a liar are cousins-german.
Bragging and lying are of the same origin.
A bully is always a coward.
The color is fierce and the inside is soft.
A burden of one’ s choice is not felt.
The burden of love is not too heavy.
A candle lights others and consumes itself.
A candle illuminates others, but destroys itself.
A cat has 9 lives.
Cats have nine lives.
A cat may look at a king.
Everyone is equal.
A close mouth catches no flies.
Disease enters through the mouth.
A constant guest is never welcome.
Regulars are annoying.
Actions speak louder than words.
Facts speak louder than words.
Adversity leads to prosperity.
If you are poor, you want to change.
Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
Talent emerges from adversity.
A fair death honors the whole life.
A well-deserved death will last forever.
A faithful friend is hard to find.
A friend is hard to find.
A fall into a pit, a gain in your wit.
learn from mistakes.
A fox may grow gray, but never good.
The country is easy to change, but the nature is hard to change.
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
A friend in need is a friend.
A friend is easier lost than found.
It is hard to win a friend, but easy to lose a friend.
A friend is never known till a man has need.
Make friends when you need them.
A friend without faults will never be found.
No friend is perfect.
’ After you’ is good manners.
"You first please" is polite.
A good beginning is half done.
Well begun is half done.
A good beginning makes a good ending.
A good beginning ends well.
A good book is a good friend.
A good book is like a good friend.
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
A good book stays with you for a lifetime.
A good conscience is a soft pillow.
Don't do bad things, don't be afraid of ghosts calling your door.
A good fame is better than a good face.
A good name is better than a good look.
A good husband makes a good wife.
A good husband makes a good wife.
A good medicine tastes bitter.
Good medicine tastes bitter.
A good wife health is a man’ s best wealth.
A wife's good health is a man's greatest wealth.
A great talker is a great liar.
Big talkers lie a lot.
A hedge between keeps friendship green.
The friendship between gentlemen is as light as water.
A joke never gains an enemy but loses a friend.
Joking cannot turn an enemy into a friend, it can only make one lose one's friend.
A leopard cannot change its spots.
Old habits die hard.
A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth.
Liars are not believed even when they tell the truth.
A light heart lives long.
Quiet to self-cultivation.
A little body often harbors a great soul.
Concentrated are all fine.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Little knowledge, self-deception.
A little pot is soon hot.
A dog's stomach can't hold four taels of oil.
All are brave when the enemy flies.
When the enemy flees, everyone becomes a warrior.
All good things come to an end.
There is no never-ending feast.
All rivers run into sea.
All rivers are inclusive.
All roads lead to rome.
All roads lead to Rome.
All that ends well is well.
If it works out, everything will be fine.
All that glitters is not gold.
Not all that shines is gold.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Everything is always difficult and easy.
All work and no play makes jack a dull boy.
Only work and no play, Smart children also become stupid.
A man becomes learned by asking questions.
Only when you are not ashamed to ask your subordinates can you learn.
A man can do no more than he can.
Everything should be done according to one's ability.
A man cannot spin and reel at the same time.
a heart can not be divided.
A man is known by his friends.
What kind of people to make friends with.
A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.
Talking empty words without doing anything is like a garden full of thorns.
A man without money is no man at all.
A penny beats a hero.
A merry heart goes all the way.
Feel good and everything is going well.
A miss is as good as a mile.
A tiny bit of loss is a thousand miles away.
A mother’ s love never changes.
Maternal love is eternal.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
A new broom sweeps clean.
The new official took office with three fires.
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.
The plan for a day lies in the morning.
An old dog cannot learn new tricks.
An old dog can't learn new tricks.
An ounce of luck is better than a pound of wisdom.
Wisdom is worse than luck.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Prevention first, treatment second.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
Rolling stones don't grow moss, changing careers doesn't make money.
As a man sows, so he shall reap.
you get what you sow.
A single flower does not make a spring.
A flower blooming alone is not spring, but a hundred flowers blooming together makes the garden full of spring.
A snow year, a rich year.
The auspicious snow heralds a prosperous year.
A sound mind in a sound body.
A healthy mind resides in a healthy body.
A still tongue makes a wise head.
A man of few words is wise.
A stitch in time saves nine.
Small holes are not repaired, but big holes suffer.
A straight foot is not afraid of a crooked shoe.
The body is not afraid of the oblique shadow.
A wise head makes a close mouth.
A real person doesn't show his face, and an exposed face is not a real person.
A word spoken is past recalling.
Once a word is spoken, it is hard to follow.
A year’ s plan starts with spring.
The plan for a year lies in spring.
A young idler, an old beggar.
Young idler, an old beggar.
Bad news has wings.
Good things don't go out, bad things spread thousands of miles.
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Barking dogs seldom bite.
Barking dogs don't bite.
Beauty lies in the love’ s eyes.
Beauty is in the eyes of beholder.
Be swift to hear, slow to speak.
Listen quickly and speak slowly.
Better late than never.
Don't be afraid of slowness, just be afraid of standing.
Better to ask the way than go astray.
It is better to ask for directions than to get lost.
Between friends all is common.
There is no distinction between friends.
Birds of a feather flock together.
Birds of a feather flock together.
Blood is thicker than water.
Blood is thicker than water.
Blood will have blood.
eye for eye.
Books and friends should be few but good.
Reading is like making friends, you should ask for less but better.
Business is business.
Business.
Business is the salt of life.
Career is the first need in life.
By reading we enrich the mind, by conversation we polish it.
Reading makes a man full, and conversation makes a man wise.
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Cannot see the wood for the trees.
One leaf blinds the eyes, but Mount Tai cannot be seen.
Care and diligence bring luck.
Prudence and diligence are required to seize opportunities.
Caution is the parent of safety.
Caution is the boat.
Cheats never prosper.
You can't make money by cheating.
Children are what the mothers are.
He is deeply influenced by his ears and eyes, and he teaches by example.
Choose an author as you choose a friend.
Choosing a book is like choosing a friend.
Come what may, heaven won’ t fall.
Do your thing, the sky won't fall.
Complacency is the enemy of study.
The enemy of learning is self-satisfaction.
Confidence in yourself is the first step on the road to success.
Confidence is the first step towards success.
Constant dripping wears away a stone.
A drop of water penetrates a stone, and a rope saws a piece of wood.
Content is better than riches.
Those who are content are always happy.
Count one’ s chickens before they are hatched.
The chicks are counted before the eggs are hatched.
Courtesy on one side only lasts not long.
Come and not reciprocate indecently.
Creep before you walk.
step by step.
Cry for the moon.
Undersea moon.
Custom is a second nature.
Habits are acquired.
Custom makes all things easy.
With a good habit, everything is easy.
D
Diamond cuts diamond.
A strong player has a strong player.
Do as the romans do.
Do as the Romans do.
Do as you would be done by.
Do unto others, do not impose on others.
Doing is better than saying.
Rather than talking about it, it is better to implement it in action.
Do it now.
Now or never.
Do nothing by halves.
Nothing can be done halfway.
Don’ t claim to know what you don’ t know.
Don't pretend to understand.
Don’ t have too many irons in the fire.
Don't overdo it.
Don’ t make a mountain out of a molehill.
Don't make a fuss about it.
Don’ t put off till tomorrow what should be done today.
Today's business, today's end.
Don’ t put the cart before the horse.
Don't put the cart before the horse.
Don’ t trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.
Don't ask for trouble.
Don’ t try to teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
Don't play around with others.
Do well and have well.
What goes around comes around.
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Each bird love to hear himself sing.
Self-admiration.
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Go to bed early and get up early for good health.
Easier said than done.
Easier said than done.
Easy come, easy go.
Come in a hurry, go in a hurry.
Eat to live, but not live to eat.
Man eats to live, but not to live to eat.
Empty vessels make the greatest sound.
The real grinding makes no sound and the empty grinding sounds, and the full bottle does not move and the half bottle shakes.
Envy has no holidays.
There is no peace for the jealous man.
Even homer sometimes nods.
A wise man has a lot of worries, but he will definitely lose something.
Even reckoning makes long friends.
My dear brother, I will settle accounts tomorrow.
Every advantage has its disadvantage.
There are advantages and disadvantages.
Everybody’ s business is nobody’ s business.
Everyone is responsible, which means no one is responsible.
Every day is not sunday.
Good times don't always come.
Every dog has his day.
Everyone has moments of joy.
Every door may be shut, but death’ s door.
Life is alive, but death is inevitable.
Every heart has its own sorrow.
Everyone has their own troubles.
Every little helps a mickle.
Gather sand to form a tower, gather armpits to form a fur.
Every man for himself, and the devil takes the hindmost.
If people are not for themselves, they will be destroyed by heaven and earth.
Every man has his faults.
no one is perfect.
Every man has his hobbyhorse.
Turnip greens, all have love.
Every man has his weak side.
Everyone has weaknesses.
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
Take control of your own destiny.
Every minute counts.
Every second counts.
Every mother’ s child is handsome.
Children are their own good.
Every potter praises hit pot.
self boasting.
Everything is good when new, but friends when old.
New things are good, friends are old relatives.
Example is better then percept.
It is better to do it than to say it once.
Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother.
Experience is the father of wisdom, memory is the mother of wisdom.
Experience must be bought.
learn from mistakes.
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Fact speak louder than words.
Facts speak louder than words.
Failure is the mother of success.
Failure is the mother of success.
False friends are worse than bitter enemies.
It is easy to dodge an open spear, but hard to defend against an arrow in the dark.
Far from eye, far from heart.
Out of sight out of mind.
Far water does not put out near fire.
Far water cannot save near fire.
Faults are thick where love is thin.
Once the affection is weak, everything is not pleasing to the eye.
Fear always springs from ignorance.
Fear stems from ignorance.
Fields have eyes, and woods have ears.
Partition walls have ears.
Fire and water have no mercy.
Fire and water are merciless.
Fire is a good servant but a bad master.
Fire is a double-edged sword.
First come, first served.
First come first served.
First impressions are half the battle.
The first time we met, the deepest impression.
First think and then speak.
Think before you speak.
Fools grow without watering.
Dead wood cannot be carved.
Fool’ s haste is no speed.
Haste makes waste.
Fools has fortune.
Stupid people are blessed.
Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.
A fool is ignorant, but a wise man is not ashamed to ask.
Forbidden fruit is sweet.
The forbidden fruit is extraordinarily fragrant.
Fortune favors those who use their judgement.
Chance favors the decisive.
Fortune knocks once at least at every man’s gate.
Feng Shui turns.
Four eyes see more than two.
Brainstorm.
Friends agree best at distance.
Friends will also keep their distance.
Friends are thieves of time.
Friends are thieves of time.
Friends must part.
No matter how good friends are, there are times when they break up.
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Genius is nothing but labor and diligence.
Genius is nothing but diligence.
Give a dog a bad name and hang him.
All the mouths make gold, and the accumulation destroys the bones.
God helps those who help themselves.
God helps those who help themselves.
Gold will not buy anything.
Gold is not everything.
Good for good is natural, good for evil is manly.
It is common sense to repay kindness with kindness, and to repay a good man with kindness.
Good health is over wealth.
Health is the greatest wealth.
Good medicine for health tastes bitter to the mouth.
Good medicine tastes bitter and is good for the disease.
Good watch prevents misfortune.
Cautiously eliminate disasters.
Great barkers are no biters.
Good dogs out of the way.
Great hopes make great man.
Great ambitions make great people.
Great minds think alike.
Heroes see the same thing.
Great men have great faults.
The hero makes big mistakes.
Great men’ s sons seldom do well.
Wealth is no more than three generations.
Great trees are good for nothing but shade.
It is good to enjoy the shade under the big tree.
Great wits have short memories.
The nobleman often forgets things.
Greedy folks have long arms.
The heart is greedy and the hands are long.
Guilty consciences make men cowards.
A guilty conscience.
H
Habit cures habit.
Heart disease needs heart medicine.
Handsome is he who does handsomely.
Beautiful behavior is beautiful.
Happiness takes no account of time.
Happiness is timeless.
Happy is he who owes nothing.
If you want to live happily, you cannot be in debt.
Happy is the man who learns from the misfortunes of others.
Learn from others and you will be lucky.
Harm set, harm get.
Hurt self and others.
Hasty love, soon cold.
Love at first sight is hard to last.
Health is better than wealth.
Health is better than wealth.
Health is happiness.
Health is happiness.
Hear all parties.
If you listen to it, you will understand.
Heaven never helps the man who will not act.
If you don't move by yourself, it's useless.
He is a fool that forgets himself.
Fools forget themselves.
He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs.
A true friend is one who speaks kindly behind his back.
He is a wise man who speaks little.
Smartness is not just lip service.
He is lifeless that is faultless.
Only the dead do not make mistakes.
He is not fit to command others that cannot command himself.
Masami first.
He is not laughed at that laughs at himself first.
Self-deprecators don't make people laugh.
He is wise that is honest.
The honest are the wisest.
He knows most who speaks least.
Great wisdom is like foolishness.
He laughs best who laughs last.
Whoever laughs last laughs best.
He sets the fox to keep the geese.
To lure wolves into the house.
He that climbs high falls heavily.
The higher you climb, the harder you fall.
He that will not work shall not eat.
Those who do not work shall not eat.
He who does not advance loses ground.
Sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat.
He who makes constant complaint gets little compassion.
Often complain, no one sympathizes.
He who makes no mistakes makes nothing.
You can't get anywhere without making mistakes.
He who risks nothing gains nothing.
Gains and risks coexist.
History repeats itself.
History often repeats itself.
Honesty is the best policy.
Be honest.
Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
Hope for the best, plan for the worst.
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I cannot be your friend and your flatterer too.
Friends cannot flatter.
If a man deceives me once, shame on him, if he deceives me twice,
shame on me.
If you turn around, it would be shameful to have more.
If you make yourself an ass, don’ t complain if people ride you.
People who are good are bullied, and horses who are good are ridden by others.
If your ears glow, someone is talking of you.
Fever in the ears, someone chanting.
If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.
If you step on two boats, you will surely fail.
If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too.
Kill the chicken and take the eggs.
If you venture nothing, you will have nothing.
If you don't enter the tiger's den, how can you find tiger cubs.
If you want knowledge, you must toil for it.
If you want to know, you have to suffer.
Industry is the parent of success.
Diligence is the mother of success.
It is better to die when life is a disgrace.
Rather Stick to your guns.
It is easier to get money than to keep it.
It is easy to earn money but difficult to save money.
It is easy to be wise after the event.
In hindsight Zhuge Liang is good.
It is easy to open a shop but hard to keep it always open.
It is easy to start a business but difficult to keep it.
It is hard to please all.
Difficult to reach.
It is never too old to learn.
Live and learn.
It is no use crying over spilt milk.
It's hard to get overwhelmed.
It is the first step that costs troublesome.
All beginnings are hard.
It is the unforeseen that always happens.
There are unpredictable things in the sky, and people have misfortunes and blessings.
It is too late to grieve when the chance is past.
It's too late to regret the missed opportunity.
It never rains but it pours.
If you don't make a song, you're done. It's a blockbuster.
It takes three generations to make a gentleman.
It takes ten years to grow trees, but a hundred years to grow people.
J
Jack of all trades and master of none.
He is proficient in all aspects, but he is sloppy in everything.
Judge not from appearances.
A person cannot be judged by his appearance, and the sea cannot be measured.
Justice has long arms.
The sky net is restored, sparse but not leaky.
K
Keep good men company and you shall be of the number.
Those who are close to vermilion are red, those who are close to ink are black.
Kill two birds with one stone.
Kill two birds with one stone.
Kings go mad, and the people suffer for it.
The king went mad, and the people suffered.
Kings have long arms.
In the whole world, is it the land of the king?
Knowledge is power.
knowledge is power.
Knowledge makes humble, ignorance makes proud.
Knowledge makes one humble, but ignorance makes one proud.
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Learn and live.
Live to learn.
Learning makes a good man better and ill man worse.
Good people learn better and better, bad people learn better and worse.
Learn not and know not.
ignorant.
Learn to walk before you run.
Learn to walk first, then run.
Let bygones be bygones.
Let the past be the past.
Let sleeping dogs lie.
Stay out of trouble.
Let the cat out of the bag.
Leak the secret.
Lies can never changes fact.
A lie is a lie after all.
Lies have short legs.
Lies don't last long.
Life is but a span.
Life is too short.
Life is half spent before we know what it is.
After half a life, one knows the destiny.
Life is not all roses.
Life is not a smooth path.
Life without a friend is death.
Without friends, life is still death.
Like a rat in a hole.
The turtle in the urn.
Like author, like book.
Wen is like a person.
Like father, like son.
Like father, like son.
Like for like.
Tit for Tat.
Like knows like.
Cherish each other.
Like mother, like daughter.
Like a mother, like a daughter.
Like teacher, like pupil.
What kind of teacher teaches what kind of students.
Like tree, like fruit.
Wool comes from sheep.
Little things amuse little minds.
A villain has no ambition.
Look before you leap.
Find out the situation before taking action.
Lookers-on see more than players.
Father, like son.
Losers are always in the wrong.
Winner takes all, loser for Kou.
Lost time is never found again.
The years have passed, and they will never return.
Love at first sight.
love at first sight.
Love cannot be compelled.
Love cannot be forced.
Love is blind.
Love is blind.
Love is full of trouble.
Love is full of troubles.
Love is never without jealousy.
There is no love without jealousy.
Love me, love my dog.
Aiwujiwu.
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Make hay while the sun shines.
Don't miss this opportunity.
Make your enemy your friend.
Turn enemies into friends.
Man is the soul of the universe.
Man is the spirit of all things.
Man proposes, god disposes.
Man proposes, God disposes.
Many hands make light work.
The more the merrier.
Many heads are better than one.
The three cobblers are better than Zhuge Liang.
Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there.
If you plant flowers intentionally, the flowers will not bloom, but if you do not intend to plant willows and willows, they will become shade.
Measure for measure.
Tit for tat.
Misfortunes never come alone.
Misfortunes never come singly.
Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.
A friend in need is a friend.
Money isn’ t everything.
Money is not all powerful.
Murder will out.
Paper can't contain fire.
My son is my son till he has got him a wife, but my daughter is my daughter all the days of her life.
A son is a son before marriage, and a daughter is a daughter all her life.
N
Nature is the true law.
Heaven has permanence, it does not exist for Yao, and does not perish for Jie.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Necessity is the driving force behind invention.
Never fish in trouble water.
Don't fish in muddled waters.
Never judge from appearances.
You can't judge a book by its cover.
Never say die.
Never say never.
Never too old to learn, never too late to turn.
It is not too late.
New wine in old bottles.
New wine in old bottles.
No cross, no crown.
How can you see a rainbow if you don't experience wind and rain.
No garden without its weeds.
There is no garden without grass.
No living man all things can.
There is no jack of all trades.
No man can do two things at once.
You can't do two things with one mind.
No man is born wise or learned.
No one is born knowing.
No man is content.
People's hearts are not enough to swallow elephants.
No man is wise at all times.
A lifetime of wisdom, a moment of confusion.
None are so blind as those who won’ t see.
Turn a blind eye.
None are so deaf as those who won’ t hear.
turn a deaf ear.
No news is good news.
No news is good news.
No one can call back yesterday.
Yesterday will not be repeated.
No pains, no gains.
There is no gain without giving.
No pleasure without pain.
There is no happiness without suffering.
No rose without a thorn.
There is no rose without thorns.
No sweet without sweat.
Bitter and then sweet.
No smoke without fire.
No wind, no wave.
Nothing brave, nothing have.
If you don't enter the tiger's den, how can you find tiger cubs.
Nothing dries sooner than a tear.
Tears dry the fastest.
Nothing in the world is difficult for one who sets his mind to it.
Nothing is unachievable.
Nothing is difficult to the man who will try.
Nothing is difficult in the world, as long as you are willing to climb.
Nothing seek, nothing find.
There is no gain without pursuit.
Nothing is so necessary for travelers as languages.
When traveling, language is the most important thing.
Nothing is to be got without pains but poverty.
Only poverty in the world can reap without labor.
Not to advance is to go back.
If you don't advance, you will retreat.
Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.
Unsophisticated, childish and ridiculous.
No way is impossible to courage.
The brave have no fear.
O
Obedience is the first duty of a soldier.
Soldiers are bound to obey orders.
Observation is the best teacher.
Observation is the best teacher.
Offense is the best defense.
Offense is the best defense.
Old friends and old wines are best.
The old wine is mellow and the old friendship is deep.
Old sin makes new shame.
One misstep becomes eternal hatred.
Once a man and twice a child.
Once old, twice young.
Once a thief, always a thief.
Steal once, be a thief forever.
Once bitten, twice shy.
Once bitten, twice shy.
One boy is a boy, two boys half a boy, three boys no boy.
One monk carried water to drink, two monks carried water to drink, and three monks had no water to drink.
One cannot put back the clock.
The clock cannot be turned back.
One eyewitness is better than ten hearsays.
Seeing is believing.
One false move may lose the game.
One careless move, and the whole game is lost.
One good turn deserves another.
Do good deeds.
One hour today is worth two tomorrow.
Race against time and high efficiency.
One man’ s fault is other man’ s lesson.
Lessons learned.
One never loses anything by politeness.
There is nothing wrong with being polite.
One swallow does not make a summer.
One swallow does not make summer.
One’ s words reflect one’ s thinking.
Words are the voice of the heart.
Out of debt, out of danger.
Debt free.
Out of office, out of danger.
No official is light.
Out of sight, out of mind.
Out of sight, out of mind.
P
Patience is the best remedy.
Patience is good medicine.
Penny wise, pound foolish.
Those who are greedy for small gains suffer big losses.
Plain dealing is praised more than practiced.
An upright person talks a lot but does a little.
Please the eye and plague the heart.
Coveting temporary happiness will inevitably leave behind hidden disasters.
Pleasure comes through toil.
All hardships come.
Pour water into a sieve.
The bamboo basket fetches water in vain.
Practice makes perfect.
Practice makes perfect.
Praise is not pudding.
Compliments cannot be eaten.
Praise makes good men better, and bad men worse.
The more good people boast, the better, and the more bad people boast, the worse.
Prefer loss to unjust gain.
I would rather suffer a loss than be greedy for cheap things.
Prevention is better than cure.
Prevention is better than cure.
Pride goes before, and shame comes after.
Pride makes one lag behind.
Promise is debt.
A promise of gold.
Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience.
Proverbs are the crystallization of everyday experience.
Pull the chestnut out of fire.
Take chestnuts from the fire.
Put the cart before the horse.
Putting the cart before the horse.
Put your shoulder to the wheel.
Help.
R
Reading enriches the mind.
It is beneficial to open the book.
Reading is to the mind while exercise to the body.
Reading to strengthen the brain, exercise to strengthen the body.
Respect yourself, or no one else will respect you.
To be respected, one must respect oneself.
Rome is not built in a day.
Freezing three feet is not a day's cold.
S
Saying is one thing and doing another.
Words and deeds do not match.
Seeing is believing.
seeing is believing.
Seek the truth from facts.
Seek truth from facts.
Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing to him.
A wise man is on duty, so there is no need to explain.
Set a thief to catch a thief.
A thief catches a thief.
Short accounts make long friends.
Good friends work hard to settle accounts.
Something is better than nothing.
better than nothing.
Soon learn, soon forgotten.
Learn quickly, forget quickly.
Soon ripe, soon rotten.
Ripens quickly, rots quickly.
Speech is silver, silence is gold.
Words are silver, silence is gold.
Still water run deep.
Still water is always deep.
Strike the iron while it is hot.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Success belongs to the persevering.
Persistence is victory.
T
Take things as they come.
They come, the security.
Talking mends no holes.
Empty talk is useless.
Talk of the devil and he will appear.
Say Cao*, Cao* will arrive.
Tall trees catch much wind.
being targeted.
Teach others by your example.
Demonstrate yourself.
The best hearts are always the bravest.
The selfless are fearless.
The best man stumbles.
Great men make mistakes too.
The cat shuts its eyes when stealing.
Deception.
The danger past and god forgotten.
Cross the river and demolish the bridge.
The darkest hour is nearest the dawn.
darkness before dawn.
The darkest place is under the candlestick.
The bottom of the candlestick is darkest.
The devil knows many things because he is old.
The old horse knows the way.
The devil sometimes speaks the truth.
The devil sometimes speaks the truth.
The die is cast.
The deal is done.
The early bird catches the worm.
Early bird gets the worm.
The end justifies the means.
As long as the purpose is right, the means can be used.
The end makes all equal.
Before death, everyone is equal.
The eye is bigger than the belly.
Too much to chew.
The farthest way about is the nearest way home.
Take a short cut instead of a long way.
The finest diamond must be cut.
Jade is not cut, not a device.
The fire is the test of gold, adversity of strong man.
Fierce fire tests true gold, Hard work grinds one's will.
The first step is the only difficulty.
Taking the first step is the hardest.
The fox knew too much, that’ s how he lost his tail.
The organ's calculations were too clever, and it cost Qingqing's life instead.
The fox preys farthest from home.
Rabbits don't eat grass beside their nests.
The frog in the well knows nothing of the great ocean.
Sitting in the sky.
The grass is greener on the other side.
This mountain looks at the height of that mountain.
The greatest talkers are always least doers.
The giant of language is always the dwarf of action.
The higher up, the greater the fall.
Climb high, fall hard.
The leopard cannot change its spots.
Nature is hard to change.
The more noble, the more humble.
The more noble a person is, the more humble he is.
The more wit, the less courage.
Newborn calves are not afraid of tigers.
The outsider sees the most of the game.
Bystanders clear.
The pen is mightier than the sword.
Pens can kill.
The pot calls the kettle black.
Fifty steps laugh at a hundred steps.
There are spots in the sun.
The sun also has dark spots.
There are two sides to every question.
There are two sides to every problem.
There is a skeleton in the cupboard.
Every family has its cupboard.
There is kindness to be found everywhere.
There is warmth everywhere in the world.
There is no general rule without some exception.
There are exceptions to any regulations.
There is no medicine against death.
There is no elixir of life.
There is no place like home.
A golden nest and a silver nest are not as good as our kennels.
There is no royal road to learning.
There are roads and diligence in the mountain of books, and there is no limit to the sea of learning.
The style is the man.
Words are like people.
The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts.
Words are scary.
The water that bears the boat is the same that swallows it up.
Water can carry a boat, and it can also overturn it.
The wise man knows he knows nothing, the fool thinks he knows all.
What is clear is self-cleaning, and what is turbid is turbid.
The wolf has a winning game when the shepherds quarrel.
The praying mantis catches the cicada, and the oriole follows behind.
The world is a ladder for some to go up and others to go down.
The world is like a ladder, some go up and some go down.
The world is but a little place, after all.
There is a confidant in the sea, and the end of the world is like a neighbor.
Think twice before you do.
Think twice.
Things at the worst will mend.
No extreme Tailai.
Time and tide wait for no man.
Time is ticking.
Time cures all things.
Time is the medicine that heals all wounds.
Time flies.
Time flies like an arrow.
Time is money.
time is money.
Time lost cannot be won again.
Time passes by and cannot be regained.
Time past cannot be called back again.
Time cannot be turned back.
Time tries all.
Lu Yao knows horsepower, and time sees people's hearts.
Tit for tat is fair play.
People do not attack me, I will not attack; if people attack me, I will attack.
To err is human.
People can not escape from doing wrong.
To know everything is to know nothing.
Knowing everything is like knowing nothing.
To know oneself is true progress.
People have self-knowledge.
Tomorrow never comes.
I live for tomorrow, and everything is in vain.
Too much familiarity breeds contempt.
Too much familiarity can make people unconvinced.
Too much knowledge makes the head bald.
Too much knowledge makes people old.
Too much liberty spills all.
Laissez-faire, nothing happens.
Too much praise is a burden.
Excessive praise will become a burden.
To save time is to lengthen life.
To save time is to prolong life.
Touch pitch, and you will be defiled.
I often walk by the river without getting my shoes wet.
Troubles never come singly.
Blessings come without pairs, and misfortunes never come singly.
Truth never grows old.
Truth lasts forever.
Turn over a new leaf.
Change your mind and turn over a new leaf.
Two dogs strive for a bone, and a third runs away with it.
Two dogs fight, play off.
Two heads are better than one.
One hero and three gangs.
Two of a trade seldom agree.
Colleagues are enemies.
Two wrongs do not make a right.
Just because someone else is wrong doesn't mean you are right.
U
Unity is strength.
unity is strength.
Unpleasant advice is a good medicine.
Faithful words are good for deeds.
Until all is over one’ s ambition never dies.
The heart will not die until the Yellow River.
V
Venture a small fish to catch a great one.
Take a small loss and gain a big advantage.
Virtue is fairer far than beauty.
Virtue far outweighs beauty.
W
Walls have ears.
Be careful that the walls have ears.
Wash your dirty linen at home.
Family ugliness cannot be exposed.
Water dropping day by day wears the hardest rock away.
Dripping water wears away the stone.
Wealth is nothing without health.
Without health, money is useless.
We know not what is good until we have lost it.
A good thing is only understood when it is lost.
Well begun is half done.
A good beginning is half the battle.
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
Water is valuable only when the well is dry.
We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.
A friend who desires perfection must become a loner.
We should never remember the benefits we have offered nor forget the favor received.
Don't mention your own good deeds, but remember the favors of others.
Wet behind the ears.
Wet.
Whatever you do, do with all your might.
No matter what you do, do it with one mind.
What is learned in the cradle is carried to the grave.
What I learned when I was a child, I will never forget.
What’ s done cannot be undone.
Raw rice is cooked.
What’ s lost is lost.
What is lost cannot be regained.
What we do willingly is easy.
It is not difficult for those who wish.
When in rome, do as the romans do.
Ask about bans when entering the country, do as the Romans do when entering the country.
When everybody’ s somebody then nobody’ s anybody.
Everyone is great, there are no heroes in the world.
When sorrow is asleep, wake it not.
Don't bring up sad old things again.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
New hatred and old hatred, all in one's heart.
When the fox preaches, take care of your geese.
The weasel has no good intentions in wishing the chicken a new year.
When wine is in truth, wit is out.
Tell the truth after drinking.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
Where there is life, there is hope.
Where there is life, there is hope.
Where there is smoke, there is fire.
It happens for a reason.
While the priest climbs a post, the devil climbs ten.
Mastering the stick, but aiming for the yard.
Who chatters to you, will chatter of you.
Those who tell tales must be villains.
Whom the gods love die young.
Good people don't live long.
Wise man have their mouths in their hearts, fools have their hearts in their mouths.
A wise man's mouth is in his heart, but a fool's heart is in his mouth.
Work makes the workman.
Hard work produces skillful craftsmen.
Y
You cannot burn the candle at both ends.
Candles should not be lit at both ends, and energy should not be consumed excessively.
You cannot eat your cake and have it.
It is impossible to have both fish and bear's paw.
You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink.
Twisted melons are not sweet.
You may know by a handful the whole sack.
The whole picture can be seen from one spot.
You never know what you can till you try.
It's a donkey or a horse, pull it out for a walk.