Quotes by Chinese Authors - Page 2

Man's heart is never satisfied the snake would swallow the elephant.
Chinese Proverb
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
Confucius
Pleasure for an hour a bottle of wine pleasure for a year marriage pleasure for a lifetime a garden.
Chinese saying
Nature is not human-hearted.
Lao Tzu
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
Confucius
Always repenting of wrongs done will never bring my heart to rest.
Ji Kang
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can do.
Lin Yutang
Equal opportunity is good but special privilege even better.
Anna Chennault
The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest success comes only later.
Confucius
To lead an untrained people to war is to throw them away.
Confucius
I used to pray that God would do this or that now I pray that God will make His will known to me.
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
We are going home to many who cannot read. So Lord make us to be Bibles so that those who cannot read the Book can read it in us.
Anonymous Chinese woman
No one who has had a unique experience with prayer has a right to withhold it from others.
Soong Mei-ling
Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee That we his evil power may bind His prisoners to free.
Watchman Nee
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
Lin Yutang
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.
Chinese Proverb
He who has not faith in others shall find no faith in them.
Lao Tzu
If a man plants melons he will reap melons if he sows beans he will reap beans.
Chinese Proverb
Hope is like a road in the country there was never a road but when many people walk on it the road comes into existence.
Lin Yutang
Politics is war without bloodshed and war is politics with blood.
Mao Tse-Tung
When you have only two pennies left in the world buy a loaf of bread with one. and a lily with the other.
Chinese Proverb
Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
Lin Yutang
With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Chinese Proverb
Love is of all passions the strongest for it attacks simultaneously the head the heart and the senses.
Lao Tzu
Misfortunes come to all men.
Chinese Proverb
Man's heart is never satisfied the snake would swallow the elephant.
Chinese Proverb
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
Confucius
Pleasure for an hour a bottle of wine pleasure for a year marriage pleasure for a lifetime a garden.
Chinese saying
Nature is not human-hearted.
Lao Tzu
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
Confucius
One dog barks at something the rest bark at him.
Chinese Proverb
The palest ink is better than the best memory.
Chinese Proverb
Married couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without talking.
Chinese Proverb
Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.
Chuang-tzu
Do not seek perfection in a changing world. Instead perfect your love.
Master Sengstan
People in the West are always getting ready to live.
Chinese Proverb
As for the best leaders the people do not notice their existence. The next best the people honour and praise. The next the people fear and the next the people hate. When the best leader's work is done the people say 'we did it ourselves!'
Lao Tzu
To lead the people walk behind them.
Lao Tzu
He who knows others is learned He who knows himself is wise.
Lao-Tsze
Recompense injury with justice and recompense kindness with kindness.
Confucius
If ignorance is indeed bliss it is a very low grade of the article.
Tehyi Hsieh
Hope is like a road in the country there was never a road but when many people walk on it the road comes into existence.
Lin Yutang
If heaven made him earth can find some use for him.
Chinese Proverb
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao Tzu
Heaven means to be one with God.
Confucius
Make happy those who are near and those who are far will come.
Chinese Proverb
Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
Chuang-tzu
With happiness comes intelligence to the heart.
Chinese Proverb
Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer recognize and protect and comfort each other.
Han Suyin
A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.
Chinese Proverb
Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
Lin Yutang
Happiness is not a horse you cannot harness it.
Chinese Proverb
Seek not happiness too greedily and be not fearful of unhappiness.
Lao Tzu
I am convinced that we must train not only the head but the heart and hand as well.
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
Manifest plainness Embrace simplicity Reduce selfishness Have few desires.
Lao Tzu
The way of a superior man is threefold: Virtuous he is free from anxieties wise he is free from perplexities bold he is free from fear.
Confucius
Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. (Don't overdo it.)
Lao-Tsze
China has no income tax no unemployed and not a single soldier outside its own territory.
Chou En-lai
What you do not want others to do to you do not do to others.
Confucius
One cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water one pops up while you try to hold down the other.
Chinese Proverb