The China Adventures of Arielle Gabriel

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

A smile will gain you ten more years of life.

Frugality is the mother of prosperity.

It is wealth enough to learn the meaning of contentment.

To live well is better than to be rich.

Unless one pretends to be stupid and deaf, it is difficult to be a mother-in-law or father-in-law.

If there is a strong general there will be no weak soldiers.

If you want to be happy for a short time, get drunk; happy for a long time, fall in love; happy for ever, take up gardening.

Better to learn one thing well than to know ten superficially.

Virtue never lives alone. It always finds good company.

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Life can never give security; it can only promise opportunity.
Chinese proverb

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Chinese proverb

Clumsy birds have need of early flight.
Chinese proverb

Adversity teaches us life's most valuable lessons.
Chinese proverb

A single day of sub-zero temperature is not enough to create three feet of ice.
Chinese proverb

A little help is worth more than a load of sympathy.
Chinese proverb

The most timid soul is made bold by necessity.
Chinese proverb

When there is light in the soul, there is beauty in the person.
When there is beauty in the person, there is harmony in the house.
When there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation.
When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
Chinese proverb

Look upon adversity as opportunity in disguise.
Chinese proverb

One evening's conversation with a superior man is better than ten years of study.
Chinese proverb

To safe a single life is better than building a seven-story pagoda.
Chinese proverb

The crow does not roost with the phoenix.
Chinese proverb

The rich add riches to riches; the poor add years to years.
Chinese proverb

When you paint a dragon, you paint his skin; it is difficult to paint the bones. When you
know a man, you know his face but not his heart.
Chinese proverb

The doctor who rides in a chair will not visit the house of the poor.
Chinese proverb

If you do not enter the tiger's den, how can you get his cub?
Chinese proverb

If one word does not succeed, ten thousand are of no avail.
Chinese proverb

When you talk on the road, remember there may be men in the grass.
Chinese proverb

Our pleasures are shallow; our sorrows are deep.
Chinese proverb

To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself.
Chinese proverb

We earn a living by what we do, but we make a life by what we give.
Chinese proverb

Make friendships with men better than yourself; better none than those like yourself.
Chinese proverb

If two men unite, their money will buy gold.
Chinese proverb

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
Chinese Proverb

A little bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses.
Chinese proverb

The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.
Chinese proverb

Fortune comes in many disguises.
Chinese proverb

Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.
Chinese proverb

It is a little thing to starve to death; it is a serious matter to lose one's virtue.
Chinese proverb

Fate is influenced by good deeds.
Chinese proverb

Virtue travels uphill, vice travels downhill.
Chinese proverb

One who has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.
Chinese proverb