Nationality: Chinese Proverbs and sayings
A great officer in peacetime is a traitor in wartime.
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MegaMozg 17-04-2024 / 08:15
What is seen with the eyes is true, what is heard with the ears is doubtful.
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Viker 19-03-2024 / 11:27
Eat breakfast alone, share lunch with a friend, and give dinner to your enemy.
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MegaMozg 15-03-2024 / 18:33
Kill two falcons with one arrow.
Quote Explanation: Analogue: One arrow, two birds with one stone.
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Viker 13-03-2024 / 10:45
A warrior who makes thoughtless movements in battle is ready to lose in advance.
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Viker 05-02-2024 / 19:49
The current even carries dead fish.
Quote Explanation: Quote from the book Silence by Narine Abgaryan
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Viker 18-12-2023 / 10:41
A person cannot have a thousand good days, just as a flower cannot bloom for a hundred days.
Quote Explanation: Nothing good lasts forever.
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Viker 05-12-2023 / 12:14
It doesn't matter what color the cat is as long as it catches mice.
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Viker 31-10-2023 / 12:23
The twisted tree lives its own life, while the correct (straight) tree goes to the boards.
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Viker 31-10-2023 / 12:21
When you want to drink, there is no time to dig a well.
Quote Explanation: Chinese proverbs from the diary of L. N. Tolstoy, 1884.
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MegaMozg 25-09-2023 / 07:30
And a mouse will not drink from the river more than it can fit into its belly.
Quote Explanation: Chinese proverbs from the diary of L. N. Tolstoy, 1884.
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MegaMozg 25-09-2023 / 07:27
Luck is the art of using chance intuitively.
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Viker 09-01-2023 / 10:30
Warn the monkey by killing the chicken.
Quote Explanation: Analogue Achieve victory, sacrifice small
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Viker 15-08-2022 / 11:34
Those who claim it is impossible should not distract those who do.
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MegaMozg 23-02-2022 / 22:21
There are no cold places in a boiler with boiling water.
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MegaMozg 12-02-2022 / 12:33
