If a man deceives me once, shame on him, if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
Fall for it once, shame on you more.
If you make yourself an ass, don't complain if people ride you.
People are good at being bullied, horses are good at being ridden.
If your ears glow, someone is talking of you.
If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.
If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too.
If you venture nothing, you will have nothing.
If you want knowledge, you must toil for it.
Industry is the parent of success.
It is better to die when life is a disgrace.
It is easier to get money than to keep it.
It is easy to be wise after the event.
It is easy to open a shop but hard to keep it always open.
It is hard to please all. It is never too old to learn.
It is no use crying over spilt milk.
It is the first step that costs troublesome.
It is the unforeseen that always happens.
It is too late to grieve when the chance is past.
It never rains but it pours.
It takes three generations to make a gentleman.
Jack of all trades and master of none.
Judge not from appearances.
Justice has long arms.
Keep good men company and you shall be of the number.Near Zhu Zhi Chi near ink black.
Kill two birds with one stone.
Kings go mad, and the people suffer for it Kings go mad, and the people suffer.
Kings have long arms.
Knowledge is power.
Knowledge makes humble, ignorance makes proud.
Being knowledgeable makes one humble, ignorance makes one proud. Learn and live.
Learning makes a good man better and ill man worse.
The more a good man learns the better, the more a bad man learns the worse.
Learn not and know not. Let sleeping dogs lie. don't make trouble
Learn to walk before you run.
Let bygones be bygones.
Let the cat out of the bag. Life is but a span.
Lies can never changes fact.
Lies have short legs.
Life is half spent before we know what it is.
Life is not all roses.
Life without a friend is death.
Like a rat in a hole.
Like author, like book.
Like father, like son.
Like for like. Like knows like.
Like mother, like daughter.
Like teacher, like pupil.
Like tree, like fruit.
Little things amuse little minds.
Look before you leap.
Lookers-on see more than players.
Losers are always in the wrong.
Lost time is never found again.
Love at first sight. Love cannot be compelled.
Love is blind. Love is full of trouble.
Love is never without jealousy.
Love me, love my dog. Make hay while the sun shines.
Make your enemy your friend.
Man is the soul of the universe.
Man proposes, God disposes.
Many hands make light work.
Many heads are better than one.
Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there.
Plenty of things grow in the garden that were never sown there.
Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there.
Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there.
Measure for measure.
Misfortunes never come alone.
Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.
Money isn't everything. Murder will out.
My son is my son till he has got him a wife, but my daughter is my daughter all the days of her life.
Nature is the true law. There is a constant in the conduct of heaven, not for Yao to exist, not for Jie to perish.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Never fish in trouble water.
Never judge from appearances. Never say die.
Never too old to learn, never too late to turn.
New wine in old bottles. No cross, no crown.
No garden without its weeds.
No living man all things can.
No man can do two things at once.
No man is born wise or learned. No man is content.
None are so blind as those who won't see.
None are so deaf as those who won't hear.
No news is good news.
No one can call back yesterday.
No pains, no gains.
No pleasure without pain.
No rose without a thorn.
No sweet without sweat. No smoke without fire.
Nothing brave, nothing have.
Nothing dries sooner than a tear.
Nothing in the world is difficult for one who sets his mind to it.
Nothing in the world is difficult, only fear of the person who has the mind.
Nothing is difficult to the man who will try.
Nothing seek, nothing find.
Nothing is so necessary for travelers as languages.
Nothing is to be got without pains but poverty.
Poverty is the only thing in the world that can be gotten without labor.
Not to advance is to go back.
Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.
Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.
No way is impossible to courage.
Obedience is the first duty of a soldier.
Observation is the best teacher.
Offense is the best defense.
Old friends and old wines are best.
Old sin makes new shame.
Once a man and twice a child.
Once a thief, always a thief.
Once bitten, twice shy.
One boy is a boy, two boys half a boy, three boys no boy.
One monk picks water to drink, two monks carry water to drink, three monks have no water to drink.
One cannot put back the clock.
One eyewitness is better than ten hearsays.
One false move may lose the game.
One good turn deserves another.
One hour today is worth two tomorrow.
One man's fault is other man's lesson.
One never loses anything by politeness.
One swallow does not make a summation.
One's words reflect one's thinking.
Out of debt, out of danger.
Out of office, out of danger.
Out of sight, out of mind.
Patience is the best remedy.
Penny wise, pound foolish.
Plain dealing is praised more than practiced.
Plain dealing is praised more than practiced.
Please the eye and plague the heart. Covetousness for a moment's pleasure is bound to leave behind a hidden disaster.
Pleasure comes through toil.
Pour water into a sieve.
Practice makes perfect.
Praise is not pudding.
Praise makes good men better, and bad men worse.
The more good men are praised, the better they get, and the more bad men are praised, the worse they get.
Prefer loss to unjust gain.
Prevention is better than cure.
Pride goes before, and shame comes after.
Promise is debt.
Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience.
Pull the chestnut out of fire.
Put the cart before the horse.
Put your shoulder to the wheel.
Reading enriches the mind.
Reading is to the mind while exercise to the body.
Respect yourself, or no one else will respect you.
Rome is not built in a day Three feet of ice, not a day of cold.
Saying is one thing and doing another.
Seeing is believing. Seek the truth from facts.
Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing to him.
The wise man on an errand is not accountable.
Set a thief to catch a thief.
Short accounts make long friends.
Something is better than nothing.
Soon learn, soon forgotten.
Soon ripe, soon rotten.
Speech is silver, silence is gold.
Still water run deep.
Strike the iron while it is hot.
Success belongs to the persevering.
Take things as they come.
Talking mends no holes.
Talk of the devil and he will appear.
Tall trees catch much wind.
Teach others by your example.
The best hearts are always the bravest.
The best man stumbles.
The cat shuts its eyes when stealing.
The danger past and God forgotten.
The darkest hour is nearest the dawn.
The darkest place is under the candlestick.
The devil knows many things because he is old.
The devil sometimes speaks the truth.
The die is cast. The early bird catches the worm.
The end justifies the means.
The end makes all equal.
The eye is bigger than the belly.
The farthest way about is the nearest way home.
The finest diamond must be cut.
The fire is the test of gold, adversity of strong man.
The first step is the only difficulty.
The fox knew too much, that's how he lost his tail.
The fox preys farthest from home.
The frog in the well knows nothing of the great ocean.
The grass is greener on the other side.
The greatest talkers are always least doers.
The higher up, the greater the fall.
The leopard cannot change its spots.
The more noble, the more humble.
The more wit, the less courage. The newborn is not afraid of tigers.
The outsider sees the most of the game.
The pen is mightier than the sword.
The pot calls the kettle black.
There are spots in the sun.
There are two sides to every question.
There is a skeleton in the cupboard.
There is kindness to be found everywhere.
There is no general rule without some exception.
There is no medicine against death.
There is no place like home.
There is no royal road to learning.
The style is the man.
The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts.
The water that bears the boat is the same that swallows it up.
Water can carry the boat, but it can also capsize it.
The wise man knows he knows nothing, the fool thinks he knows all. The wolf has a winning game when the shepherds quarrel. The world is a ladder for some to go up and others to go down.
The world is but a little place, after all.
Think twice before you do.
Things at the worst will mend.
Time and tide wait for no man.
Time cures all things.
Time flies. Time is money.
Time lost cannot be won again.
Time past cannot be called back again.
Time tries all.
Tit for tat is fair play. People don't offend me, I don't offend; if people offend me, I will offend.
To err is human.
To know everything is to know nothing.
To know oneself is true progress.
Tomorrow never comes.
Too much familiarity breeds contempt.
Too much knowledge makes the head bald.
Too much liberty spills all.
Too much praise is a burden.
To save time is to lengthen life.
Touch pitch, and you will be defiled.
Troubles never come singly.
Truth never grows old.
Turn over a new leaf.
Two dogs strive for a bone, and a third runs away with it.
The snipe and the clams fight, and the fisherman wins.
Two heads are better than one.
Two of a trade seldom agree.
Two wrongs do not make a right.
Unity is strength.
Unpleasant advice is a good medicine.
Until all is over one's ambition never dies.
Venture a small fish to catch a great one.
Virtue is fairer far than beauty.
Walls have ears.
Wash your dirty linen at home.
Water dropping day by day wears the hardest rock away.
Wealth is nothing without health.
We know not what is good until we have lost it.
Well begun is half done.
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault
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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.
Whatever you do, do with all your might.
What is learned in the cradle is carried to the grave.
What's done cannot be undone.
What's lost is lost. What we do willingly is easy. When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
When everybody's somebody then nobody's anybody.
When sorrow is asleep, wake it not.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
New hatreds and old hatreds, all come to mind.
When the fox preaches, take care of your geese.
When wine is in truth, wit is out.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
Where there is life, there is hope.
Where there is smoke, there is fire.
While the priest climbs a post, the devil climbs ten.
Who chatters to you, will chatter of you.
Whom the gods love die young.
Wise man have their mouths in their hearts, fools have their hearts in their mouths.
Wise man have their mouths in their hearts, fools have their hearts in their mouths.
Work makes the workman. Wet behind the ears.
You cannot burn the candle at both ends.
You cannot eat your cake and have it.
You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink. You may know by a handful the whole sack.
You never know what you can till you try.
One foot on Mount Taishan --- jumped high
Pocket full of cones --- love to show the tip
Half bottle of vinegar --- wobbly
Head of the electric fan --- big wind
Break the brain shell does not call for pain --- die called good man
Played enough gas ball --- love to jump
Powdered into the coffin --- dead face
Do not want to be ashamed.
Swollen face --- to make up for the fat man
Pocket in a bag --- pointed out
Fried beans on a stone slab --- bouncing when they are ripe
Washing hands in the gutter --- fake love of cleanliness
Eating family food and defecating --- only caring about the outside
Bare legs and wearing a big coat --- just talking about the big and ugly
Red lacquer dung jar boards --- not to say that they are ugly
They have to be painted in red to make them look good. The red-painted dung bowl board --- stinky
Hanging an embroidered ball in front of the toilet door --- stinky
The dog has grown horns --- goatish
Hanging an embroidered ball on a rotten cottage --- fake pretty
Shrimp is pleased --- love to jump
Stretching out a foot in the sleeve --- boastful
The chest hangs a board --- what a great sign
Deaf ears --- deaf ears --- love to go out
The deaf ear --- love to go out
The deaf ear is a big ear, but it's not a big ear, so it is not a big ear.
Deaf man's ear---putting on a show
Powder on the head---deadly face
Actor's make-up---putting on grease
Small scallion mixes with tofu---one green and two white Crossing the river and tearing down the bridge---being ungrateful
The Yellow Lotus in Ice Sugar Water--The Same Sweetness and Bitterness The Blind Man's Eye--No One in His Sight
The Peony Embroidered on Colorful Silk--An Adding to the Flower The Boat that Walks Against the Current
The enemy on the log bridge - a narrow road between enemies Volleyball matches - pushing each other
Tweezing hairs - pulling them out by the roots.
The poor man's child - early to be a family member
The dead fish - no mouth
The night owl sleeps with one eye open and one eye shut
The ants on the hot pan are in a state of confusion
The persimmon that has been frosted - wilts.
The Emperor slapped the table - holy anger Teapot in Jingdezhen - good porcelain
The clay Bodhisattva took a bath - paralyzed Blind man drew - blind drawing
The blind man's drawing - blind drawing
The stone man - dead-eyed The bun has meat - not in the folds
Jumping into a well with a Yuanbao on his back - sacrificing his life but not his fortune. -A carpenter wearing a yoke - a self-made man Guan Yunchang as a carpenter.
Saving the chickens and starving the snakes - losing sight of both sides of the equation Xiu Cai as a soldier - both civil and military
Writing an article in an airplane - a tall tale Narcissus doesn't blossom
Half a tael of cotton - not to be played
The flower girl sings a song - to be happy
One man, one trumpet - each playing his own tune.
The firefly ate in his belly - he knew in his heart that the king was gnawing on a watermelon - he was rolling and crawling
The house was in trouble again - it was in trouble all the time.
Song Jiang's military advisor, Wu Wu Yu (無用)
Blowing a trumpet under the bed - a lowly voice.
The firecracker on the head of the coffin - scared to death The pig swallowed the key - happy
The fire was put out without water - anxious The germs held a conference.
Selling cloth without a ruler - bad intention (measure) Piggy looking in the mirror - inside and out
Playing the lute on the plane - high profile
The upper skin of the mouth is close to the sky, and the lower skin of the mouth is close to the ground---what a big mouth
The clogs have taken off their soles---exhaustion of the cowhide
The bucket as a trumpet---big blowing
Wind drilled into a drum---blow the cowhide
The rooster flew to the rooftop---singing a high note
Leather shop owner--blow the cowhide
Blow the cowhide is not a death sentence---big words are made by a person who has a big mouth
Blow the cowhide is not a crime. Death penalty --- big talk by you
Flying on an airplane with a suona on his back --- blowing up to the sky
The money store's wobbler --- what a big tune
The sparrow's son lays a goose's egg --- big talk
The drum with an electric fan on it --- blowing up the skin
Mosquito with routered fat and oil in the belly --- no oil and water
The mosquito with routered fat and oil in the belly --- no oil and water in the belly.
-Crab in a pot of boiling water - see how long you can run amok
-Crazy girl telling jokes - hee hee hee hee
-Inviting wolves to be guests -live with the wolf
- Crippled man walking by the blind man - taking the best from the bad
- Regular visitor to the dye house - lecherous man
- Car with a broken steering wheel
The yellow dog's head is a horn - a sheep's face
The weasel foraging for food - a chicken's chance
The weasel's butt - a fart's no good.
-The rat gnaws on a ball of skin - a guest
-The monk's temple against the nunnery - nothing is wrong even if it's not
-The monk's wooden fish
-Caller twisting rice-planting songs--poor and happy
-Dumpling skin is too thin--inevitably, the filling will be exposed
-Peking Opera walks on the stage--dabbling slowly
-Seeing a candle on fire-it's too soft
-Seeing a camel and saying a horse is swollen-it's too rare and strange
-Sores on the spine and sticking plasters on the chest-don't worry about the