Confucius Proverbs

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

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

Everyone is wise until he speaks.
Irish Proverbs

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

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
English Proverbs

Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things.
Confucius

The journey is the reward.
Chinese Proverbs

When ambition ends, happiness begins.
Hungarian Proverbs

It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.
Confucius

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

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

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

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

Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
Confucius

The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.
Confucius

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.
Confucius

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

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

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

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

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
Confucius

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

The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.
Confucius

That which is escaped now is pain to come.
Proverbs

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
English Proverbs

A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.
Confucius

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.
Proverbs

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow -- I have still joy in the midst of all these things.
Confucius

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.
Confucius

We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.
Confucius

If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?
Confucius

Fall seven times and stand up eight.
Japanese Proverbs

Mankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away.
Confucius

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
Confucius

Don't halt before you are lame.
English Proverbs

Better be quarrelling than lonesome.
Irish Proverbs

Actions speak louder than words.
English Proverbs

Familiarity breeds contempt.
English Proverbs

The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.
English Proverbs

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

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

A jack of both sides, is before long, trusted by nobody, and abused by both parties.
Proverbs

All's well that ends well.
English Proverbs

Good fences make good neighbors.
English Proverbs

I against my brother I and my brother against our cousin, my brother and our cousin against the neighbors all of us against the foreigner.
Bedouin Proverbs

There are three kinds of people; those that make things happen, those that watch things happen and those who don't know what's happening.
American Proverbs

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

A bad penny always turns up.
English Proverbs

The old pipe gives the sweetest smoke.
Irish Proverbs