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Wocca · Scribe Joined: 06 May 2005 Posts: 970 Location:

My favourite Chinese proverb is:

Don't make trouble WHEN you are not in trouble

Here are some others .....

1) The participant's perspectives are clouded while the bystander's views are clear.

2) Pick the flower when it is ready to be picked.

3) If you don't go into the cave of the tiger, how are you going to get its cub?

4) Follow the local custom when you go to a foreign place.

5) It's is impossible to change your basic characteristics.

6) Once bitten by a snake, you are even frightened by a rope that resembles a snake.

7) Your neighbor's wife looks prettier than your own.

Cool

When you go up to the mountain too often, you will eventually encounter the tiger.

9) Elephant tusks cannot grow out of a dog's mouth.

10) When the tiger comes down from the mountain to the plains, it is bullied by the dogs.

Do you know any other Chinese proverbs? china

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Mike · Site Admin Joined: 07 Sep 2004 Posts: 4512 Location:

If you want pretty nurse, you got to be patient
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Wocca · Scribe Joined: 06 May 2005 Posts: 970 Location:

A dog won't foresake his master because of his poverty; a son never deserts his mother for her homely appearance. Shocked

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Wocca · Scribe Joined: 06 May 2005 Posts: 970 Location:

He who is unjust is doomed to destruction

A hero is silent about his past glories Shocked

He who has done nothing shameful by day, need not be alarmed by a knock on the door at night
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Pinky · Plebian Joined: 27 Mar 2005 Posts: 95 Location:

Yi San Bi You Yi San Gao (For every mountain, there's another that's higher).

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Wocca · Scribe Joined: 06 May 2005 Posts: 970 Location:

Knowing a person by repute is not as good as meeting him face to face Wave

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Edward Gilson · Novice Joined: 29 Nov 2004 Posts: 38 Location:

"Ten thousand years is to long, seize the minutes and seconds" - Mao...useful in pushing for speedier work execution or self-development.

"If you tell yourself a lie repeatedly enough times, you will believe it" - Mao...useful in convincing others to drop old excuses for not being able to improve or follow new rules.

"Black cat or white cat makes no difference as long as it catches the mice" - Deng Xiao ping...useful for emphasizing meeting the objectives verses emphasizing the method.