1852 Chinese Proverbs / Page 80
1581.
To be totally at leisure for one day is to be immortal for one day.1582.
To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.1583.
To be uncertain is uncomfortable, but to be certain is ridiculous.1584.
To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep.1585.
To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much and doing nothing.1586.
To cultivate trees, you need 10 years. To cultivate people, you need 100 years.1587.
To die is to stop living but to stop living is something entirely different than dying.1588.
To do good for ten years is not enough; do bad things for one day and it is too much.1589.
To enjoy a grander sight, climb to a greater height.1590.
To extend your life by a year, take one less bite each meal.1591.
To fall is not painful for those who fly low.1592.
To feed the ambition in your heart is like carrying a tiger under your arm.1593.
To find out about the road ahead, ask those coming back.1594.
To forget one's ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree without a root.1595.
To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping.1596.
To go beyond is as bad as to fall short.1597.
To guess is cheap, to guess wrong is expensive.1598.
To have beautiful servant girls is a threat to good marriages.1599.
To have saved one human life is worth more than to build a pagoda with seven stories.1600.
To know and know that you know, not to know and know that you don't know, that is to know.