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If two men ride a horse, one must ride behind.

Proverbs and old sayings Chinese about man

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come and sit on it.

Proverbs and old sayings Chinese about heart

Love your neighbors, but don't pull down the fence.

Proverbs and old sayings Chinese about love

One joy scatters a hundred griefs.

Proverbs and old sayings Chinese about joy

Pigs might fly, but they are most unlikely birds.

Proverbs and old sayings Chinese

A journey of a thousand miles began with a single step.

Riddles

Joke about the present by referring to the past.

Proverbs and old sayings Chinese about joke, present, past

Wealth does not pass three generations.

Proverbs and old sayings Chinese about wealth

A spark can start a fire that burns the entire prairie.

Proverbs and old sayings Chinese about fire, fire brigade

Riding a mule while looking for a horse.

Proverbs and old sayings Chinese

A bad workman blames his tools.

Proverbs and old sayings Chinese about tools, bad luck, bad, old, olderness

A leopard cannot change its spots.

Proverbs and old sayings Chinese about change, old, olderness

Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness

Proverbs and old sayings Chinese about light, old, olderness

Devil take the hindmost

Proverbs and old sayings Chinese about devil, old, olderness

Failing to plan is planning to fail

Proverbs and old sayings Chinese about old, olderness

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime

Proverbs and old sayings Chinese about man, day, old, olderness

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys

Proverbs and old sayings Chinese about old, olderness

Keep your chin up

Proverbs and old sayings Chinese about old, olderness

To learn a language is to have one more window from which to look at the world.

Proverbs and old sayings Chinese about language, world