Better be too credulous than too skeptical
Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
If you are in the business of revenge, then you better dig two graves.
Keep a green tree alive in your heart, and a songbird may come to sing there.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Blame yourself if you have no branches or leaves don't accuse the sun of partiality.
You have two lives the second one begins when you realize you only have one
Be not afraid of growing slowly be afraid only of standing still.
With true friends . . . even water drunk together is sweet enough.
A bird can roost but on one branch. A mouse can drink no more than its fill from a river.
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
If a man plants melons he will reap melons if he sows beans he will reap beans.
He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg.
Words are mere bubbles of water but deeds are drops of gold.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Married couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without talking.
Make happy those who are near and those who are far will come.
If heaven made him earth can find some use for him.
Man's heart is never satisfied the snake would swallow the elephant.