Chinese Proverbs

Love is like a war:Easy to begin Hard to end!
ancient Proverbs

Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
Chinese Proverb

With true friends...even water drunk together is sweet enough.
Chinese Proverb

If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile.
Indian Proverbs

To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.
Chinese Proverb

Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head.
Chinese Proverbs

To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep
Chinese Proverb

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
English Proverbs

What is hateful to thyself do not do to another. That is the whole Law, the rest is Commentary.
Jewish Proverbs

Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be.
German Proverbs

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.
Chinese proverb

The journey is the reward.
Chinese Proverbs

Everyone is wise until he speaks.
Irish Proverbs

Govern a family as you would cook a small fish -- very gently.
Chinese Proverbs

Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold.
Latin Proverbs

When ambition ends, happiness begins.
Hungarian Proverbs

Blind belief is dangerous. - Luyia , Western Kenya
African Proverbs

Do not vacillate or you will be left in between doing something, having something and being nothing. - Ethiopia
African Proverbs

A boys best friend is his mother and there's no spancel stronger than her apron string.
Irish Proverbs

A dog knows the places he is thrown food.
African Proverbs

If you want happiness for an hour – take a nap. If you want happiness for a day – go fishing. If you want happiness for a month – get married. If you want happiness for a year – inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime – help someone else. Chinese Proverb
Chinese Proverb

Familiarity breeds contempt.
English Proverbs

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.
Chinese Proverbs

Actions speak louder than words.
English Proverbs

Better be quarrelling than lonesome.
Irish Proverbs

All's well that ends well.
English Proverbs

That which is escaped now is pain to come.
Proverbs

The good looks of a moron do not stay that way for long. - Ethiopia (Ayele, p. 23, Amharic)
African Proverbs

When the sky falls we'll catch larks.
Irish Proverbs

Any landing you can walk away from is a good one.
Proverbs

Good fences make good neighbors.
English Proverbs

A bad penny always turns up.
English Proverbs

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
English Proverbs

An old broom knows the dirty corners best.
Irish Proverbs

One beetle recognizes another.
Irish Proverbs

Poor men seek meat for their stomach, rich men stomach for their meat.
English Proverbs

The old pipe gives the sweetest smoke.
Irish Proverbs

A Champion bull starts from birth. - Luyia.Western Kenya
African Proverbs

Bad dancing does not brake an engagement. - Luyia , Western Kenya
African Proverbs

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
English Proverbs

Knowledge is better than riches. Cameroon
African Proverbs

A windy day is not the day for thatching.
Irish Proverbs

The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.
English Proverbs

Humor to a man is like a feather pillow.It is filled with what is easy to get but gives great comfort.
Irish Proverbs

Mere words do not feed the friars.
Irish Proverbs

The young can't teach traditions to the old. - Yoruba proverb
African Proverbs

He who marries a real beauty is seeking trouble. - Accra proverb, Ghana
African Proverbs

A narrow neck keeps the bottle from being emptied in one swig.
Irish Proverbs

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
Chinese Proverb

One does not love if one does not accept from others. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria
African Proverbs