Friday, 2 September 2011

2nd Sept 2011 Chinese Sayings & Proverbs

Sept 02A

Chinese Sayings About Money ~

  • With money you can buy a house but not a home.
  • With money you can buy a clock but not time.
  • With money you can buy a bed but not sleep.
  • With money you can buy a book, but not knowledge.
  • With money you can see a doctor, but not good health.
  • With money you can buy a position but not respect.
  • With money you can buy blood but not life.
Chinese Proverbs ~
  • Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.”
  • Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come.
  • To talk much and arrive nowhere is the same as climbing a tree to catch a fish.
  • Kissing is like drinking salted water: you drink and your thirst increases
  • Be not disturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed rather at not being understanding
  • Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes
  • I dreamed a thousand new paths ... I woke and walked my old one.
  • If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people
  • Do not anxiously hope for that which is not yet come; do not vainly regret what is already past
  • Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up
  • It is the beautiful bird which gets caged
  • To listen well, is as powerful a means of influence as to talk well, and is as essential to all true conversation”

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