Not a good beginning makes a bad ending.
A bad thing never dies.
Remains in the odor for ten thousand years.
A bad workman always blames his tools.
The river bends when he can't hold a boat.
A bird in the hand is worth more than two in the bush.
A bird in the hand is worth more than two in the bush.
A boaster and a liar are cousins-german.
Bragging and lying are cousins.
A bully is always a coward.
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 cat has 9 lives.
A cat may look at a king.
Everyone is equal.
A close mouth catches no flies.
Disease enters by the mouth.
A constant guest is never welcome.
Actions speak louder than words.
Facts speak louder than words.
Adversity leads to prosperity.
Poverty leads to change.
Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
Adversity produces talent.
A fair death honors the whole life.
A faithful friend is hard to find.
A fall into a pit, a gain in your wit.
Eat a lesson, grow a wit.
A fox may grow gray, but never good.
River and mountain are easy to change, but nature is hard to change.
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
A friend in need sees true love.
A friend is easier lost than found.
Getting a friend is hard, losing a friend is easy.
A friend is never known till a man has need.
A friend is never known till a man has need.
A friend without faults will never be found.
No friend is perfect.
'After you' is good manners.
A good beginning is half done.
A good beginning is half the success.
A good beginning makes a good ending.
A good beginning is a good ending.
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 is a good friend.
A good conscience is a soft pillow.
No heartbreak, no fear of ghosts.
A good fame is better than a good face.
A good name is better than a good face.
A good husband makes a good wife.
A good husband makes a good wife.
A good medicine tastes bitter.
A good wife health is a man's best wealth.
A great talker is a great liar.
The one who talks big lies a lot.
A hedge between keeps friendship green.
A gentleman's friendship is as light as water.
A joke never gains an enemy but loses a friend.
The banter does not turn an enemy into a friend, it only makes one lose a friend.
A leopard cannot change its spots.
Backlogged habits are hard to change.
A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth.
No one believes a liar even when he speaks the truth.
A light heart lives long.
Quietness cultivates the body.
A little body often harbors a great soul.
Concentration is fine.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Half-knowledge is self-deception.
A little pot is soon hot.
A dog's stomach cannot hold four taels of oil.
All are brave when the enemy flies.
Everyone becomes a warrior when the enemy flees.
All good things come to an end.
All rivers run into sea.
All roads lead to Rome.
All that ends well is well.
All that ends well is well.
All that glitters is not gold.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play makes a smart boy dull.
A man becomes learned by asking questions.
No shame in asking questions makes a man learned.
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.
One mind cannot be used twice.
A man is known by his friends.
What man makes what friends.
A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.
To speak words and not of deeds is like a garden full of thorns.
A man without money is no man at all.
A penny is hard to beat a hero.
A merry heart goes all the way.
A miss is as good as a mile.
A mother's love never changes.
Mother's love is eternal.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
A new broom sweeps clean.
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.
A day's work lies in the morning.
An old dog cannot learn new tricks.
An ounce of luck is better than a pound of wisdom.
Cleverness is better than luck.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
Rolling stone gathers no moss.
As a man sows, so he shall reap.
Sow melon and get melon, sow beans and get beans.
A single flower does not make a spring.
A single flower does not make a spring, but a hundred flowers make a spring.
A snow year, a rich year.
A sound mind in a sound body.
A sound mind in a sound body.
A still tongue makes a wise head.
A man of few words is wise.
A stitch in time saves nine.
A small hole is not mended, a big hole suffers.
A straight foot is not afraid of a crooked shoe.
A wise head makes a close mouth.
The real person does not show his face, the show is not real.
A word spoken is past recalling.
A word spoken is past recalling.
A year's plan starts with spring.
A young idler, an old beggar.
The young and strong don't make an effort, the old are sad.
Bad news has wings.
Good things don't come out of doors, but bad things spread a thousand miles.
Barking dogs seldom bite.
Beauty lies in the love's eyes.
Be swift to hear, slow to speak.
Better late than never.
Not afraid of slow, only afraid of standing.
Better to ask the way than go astray.
Better to ask the way than get lost.
Between friends all is common.
Birds of a feather flock together.
Birds of a feather flock together.
Blood is thicker than water.
Blood will have blood.
Blood pays for blood.
Books and friends should be few but good.
Books and friends should be few but good.
Business is business.
Business is the salt of life.
Business is the first need of life.
By reading we enrich the mind, by conversation we polish it.
Reading enriches a person, conversation makes a person shrewd.
Cannot see the wood for the trees.
Care and diligence bring luck.
Care and diligence are what seize opportunities.
Caution is the parent of safety.
Cheats never prosper.
Children are what the mothers are.
Ear and eye, teach by example.
Choose an author as you choose a friend.
Come what may, heaven won't fall.
Come what you may, heaven won't fall.
Complacency is the enemy of study.
The enemy of study is one's own fulfillment.
Confidence in yourself is the first step on the road to success.
Constant dripping wears away a stone.
Content is better than riches.
Those who know enough are always happy.
Count one's chickens before they are hatched.
Count the chickens before the eggs are hatched.
Courtesy on one side only lasts not long.
Creep before you walk.
Creep step by step.
Cry for the moon.
Custom is a second nature.
Habits are acquired.
Custom makes all things easy.
Having a good habit makes everything easy.
Diamond cuts diamond.
Stronger is stronger.
Do as the Romans do.
Follow the Romans.
Do as you would be done by.
Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you.
Doing is better than saying.
Instead of hanging on to your lips, put it into action.
Do it now.
It's too late to lose.
Do nothing by halves.
Do nothing by halves.
Don't claim to know what you don't know.
Don't pretend to know.
Don't have too many irons in the fire.
Don't claim to know what you don't know.
Don't make a mountain out of a molehill.
Don't make a mountain out of a molehill.
Don't put off till tomorrow what should be done today.
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.
Do well and have well.
Each bird love to hear himself sing.
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Early to bed and early to rise is good.
Easier said than done.
Easier said than done.
Easy come, easy go.
Easy come, easy go.
Eat to live, but not live to eat.
People eat to live, but live not to eat.
Empty vessels make the greatest sound.
The real mill has no sound, the empty mill rings, the full bottle does not move half bottle shake.
Envy has no holidays.
Jealous people have no peace.
Even Homer sometimes nods.
The wise man has a thousand thoughts.
Even reckoning makes long friends.
Every advantage has its disadvantage.
Everybody's business is nobody's business.
Everybody's business is nobody's business.
Every day is not Sunday.
Good things don't always happen.
Every dog has his day.
Everyone has his day.
Every door may be shut, but death's door.
Death is the only thing that can't be escaped.
Every heart has its own sorrow.
Every person has his own distress.
Every little helps a mickle.
Gathering sand into a tower, gathering armpits into fur.
Every man for himself, and the devil takes the hindmost.
Every man has his faults.
No man is perfect.
Every man has his hobbyhorse.
The carrot and the green vegetable, each one loves.
Every man has his weak side.
Everyone has a weak side.
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
Our own destiny is in our hands.
Every minute counts.
Every mother's child is handsome.
The child is his own good.
Every potter praises hit pot.
The king's wife sells herself.
Everything is good when new, but friends when old.
Everything is good when new, but friends when old.
Example is better then percept.
Saying it once is better then doing it.
Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother.
Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother of wisdom.
Experience must be bought.
Eat a lesson, learn a lesson.
Fact speak louder than words.
Facts speak louder than words.
Failure is the mother of success.
False friends are worse than bitter enemies.
Open shots are easy to hide, but secret arrows are hard to guard against.
Far from eye, far from heart.
Far water does not put out near fire.
Faults are thick where love is thin.
Once the love is thin, everything is wrong.
Fear always springs from ignorance.
Fear comes from ignorance.
Fields have eyes, and woods have ears.
The walls have ears.
Fire and water have no mercy.
Fire is a good servant but a bad master.
Fire is a double-edged sword.
First come, first served.
First impressions are half the battle.
First meeting, the deepest impression.
First think and then speak.
Fools grow without watering.
Decaying wood cannot be carved.
Fool's haste is no speed.
Fools have fortune.
Fools have fortune.
Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.
Fools don't learn without skill, but wise men are not ashamed to ask.
Forbidden fruit is sweet.
Fortune favors those who use their judgement.
Opportunity favors those who use their judgement.
Fortune knocks once at least at every man's gate.
Wind and water turn.
Four eyes see more than two.
Collective thinking.
Friends agree best at distance.
Friends are thieves of time.
Friends are thieves of time.
Friends must part.
Even the best of friends have a time to break up.
Genius is nothing but labor and diligence.
Give a dog a bad name and hang him.
Many mouths are full of gold, and the accumulation of ruins is destroyed.
God helps those who help themselves.
Heaven helps those who help themselves.
Gold will not buy anything.
Gold is not everything.
Good for good is natural, good for evil is manly.
Returning good for evil is common sense.
Good health is over wealth.
Health is the greatest wealth.
Good medicine for health tastes bitter to the mouth.
Good watch prevents misfortune.
Cautiousness eliminates disaster.
Great barkers are no biters.
Great dogs don't get in the way.
Great hopes make great man.
Great ambitions make great men.
Great minds think alike.
Heroes see alike.
Great men have great faults.
Heroes make great mistakes.
Great men's sons seldom do well.
The rich don't make three generations.
Great trees are good for nothing but shade.
Great trees are good for shade.
Great wits have short memories.
Great people have short memories.
Greedy folks have long arms.
Greedy hearts have long arms.
Guilty consciences make men cowards.
The heart of a thief.
Habit cures habit.
Heart disease needs heart medicine.
Handsome is he who does handsomely.
Behavior is beautiful.
Happiness takes no account of time.
Happiness does not realize that time has passed.
Happy is he who owes nothing.
To live a happy life, one cannot carry a debt on his body.
Happy is the man who learns from the misfortunes of others.
The man who learns from the lessons of others is the man who is lucky.
Harm set, harm get.
Hasty love, soon cold.
Love at first sight is hard to maintain long.
Health is better than wealth.
Health is better than wealth.
Health is happiness.
Hear all parties.
Hear both, and you will see.
Heaven never helps the man who will not act.
What is the use of calling heaven if you do not move yourself?
He is a fool that forgets himself.
The fool forgets himself.
He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs.
He is a wise man who speaks little.
Wisdom is not hung on the lips.
He is lifeless that is faultless.
Only a dead man makes no mistakes.
He is not fit to command others that cannot command himself.
Correcting others precedes correcting oneself.