1852 Chinese Proverbs / Page 59
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Patience in the household is a real treasure.1162.
Patience is a bitter plant, but it has sweet fruit.1163.
Patience is a plaister for all sores.1164.
Patience is a virtue.1165.
Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.1166.
Peace and tranquility are a thousand gold pieces.1167.
Peace and tranquillity are a thousand gold pieces.1168.
People can be done without but a lot of us need a friend.1169.
People can no more be judged by their looks than the sea can be measured in bushels.1170.
People die voluntarily when it becomes impossible to live.1171.
People fool themselves. They pray for a long life but fear old age.1172.
People live like birds in the woods: When the time comes, each must take flight.1173.
Perseverance can reduce an iron rod to a sewing needle.1174.
Phoenix feather and unicorn horns.1175.
Pick up a sesame seed only to lose a watermelon.1176.
Pick your inn before the dark; get on your road before the dawn.1177.
Plan your year in the spring, your day at dawn.1178.
Plant the crab-tree where you will it will never bear pippins.1179.
Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.1180.
Pleasures are shallow, sorrows deep.