1852 Chinese Proverbs / Page 45
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It is only good when the old and the young respect each other.882.
It is the beautiful bird that gets caged.883.
It is the beautiful bird which gets caged.884.
It is too late for a galloping horse to stop at a clip; it is useless for a sinking boat to be mended in the middle of a river.885.
It never rains on your neighbors without you getting your feet wet.886.
It takes a tree ten years to mature; it takes a man one hundred years to form.887.
It takes a year to make a friend, but you can lose one in an hour.888.
It takes little effort to watch a man carry a load.889.
It takes more than one cold day for a river to freeze three feet deep.890.
It takes three years to learn to be a man of integrity; it only takes three days to degrade.891.
It takes true heroism to conquer oneself.892.
It's as difficult to be rich without bragging as it is to be poor without complaining.893.
It's better for people to wait for rice, than rice for people.894.
It's better to die two years early than to live one year too long.895.
It's better to do good in the neighborhood than to burn incense far away.896.
It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.897.
It's not that the well is too deep, but rather the rope is too short.898.
It's not the beauty of a woman that blinds the man, the man blinds himself.899.
It's not the fleas of the dog that make the cat meow.900.
It's your own lantern; don't poke holes in the paper.