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

More Chinese Proverbs

• Do not want others to know what you have done? Better not have done it anyways.
• Ripe fruit falls by itself – but it doesn’t fall in your mouth.
• A person of high principles is one who can watch an entire chess game without making a comment.
• If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
• Small men think they are small; great men never know they are great.
• A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
• I was angered, for I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
• A crisis is an opportunity riding the dangerous wind.
• A wise man makes his own decisions, but an ignorant man mindlessly follows the crowd.
• Two good talkers are not worth one good listener.
• A clever person turns great troubles into little ones, and little ones into none at all.
• Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
• If you want your children to have a peaceful life, let them suffer a little hunger and a little coldness.
• A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood
• To know another is not to know the person’s face, but to know the person’s heart.
• A little impatience will spoil great plans.
• A smile will gain you ten more years of life.
• The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is today.
• If you want to avoid being cheated, ask for prices at three different stores.
• Men trip not on mountains they trip on molehills.
• It is not the knowing that is difficult, but the doing.
• Think about your own faults during the first half of the night, and the faults of others during the second half.
• There are two kinds of perfect people: those who are dead, and those who have not been born yet.
• He who cheats the earth will be cheated by the earth.
• Listening well is as powerful as talking well, and is also as essential to true conversation.
• A clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.
• Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.