Chinese Proverbs


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Wedlock is a padlock.


What centenarian has 36,000 days of pleasure?

What exists in the morning we cannot be certain of in the evening; what exists in the evening we cannot calculate upon for the next morning. The fortunes of men are as uncertain as the winds and clouds of heaven.

Unjustly-gotten wealth will go unjustly.

Very fond of bragging.

Wait long, strike fast.


Weather varies every hundred miles.

Unless we change direction, we are likely to wind up where we are headed.

Like one who has drawn out his muscles.

Wait till the Yellow Eiver becomes clear, and how old will you be?

We dare not injure the bodies received from our parents.

Unless you have business never go up to the temple of the Three Precious Ones.

To rub away an iron ink-slab.



Unless you will give him some trifling sum, you can?t get rid of a destitute chum.

Viands have various flavors; what pleases the palate is good.

Walk along slowly---perhaps you will, that I fear not, but lest you stand still.

We have eyed each other well; now, are we good-looking or not?

Unable either to use or part with.

Unless your friend be your superior, you had better have none; and for a few days observe whether his subsequent greetings equal his first.

Vice cannot be concealed. Lit.: An ugly daughter-in-law cannot conceal that face from her mother-in-law.

Want of forbearance causes small offences to become great.

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