Chinese Proverb

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

If you bow at all, bow low.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

I dreamed a thousand new paths. . . I woke and walked my old one.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Do not employ handsome servants.

Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.

He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

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

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.

A bit of fragrance clings to the hand that gives flowers.

A book holds a house of gold.

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.