Famous sayings are a vocabulary in Chinese, and pinyin is míng yán, which basically means very famous words. Famous words are usually said by people with names. From Liu Yiqing's Shi Shuo Xin Yu to Ouyang Xiu's Returning to the Field.

A famous motto

Reading a good book is like making a good friend. Cang Kejia

Reading breaks thousands of volumes, and writing is like a god. -Du Fu

People who don't study will stop thinking. -Diderot

Whoever reads useless books is just playing with things and getting tired of playing. -(Qing) Wang Yu

Reading is to wisdom what gymnastics is to the body. -(British) proverb

It is better to put it on the shelf than to read it without knowing its taste; What is a stupid fish? It eats dregs all day. -(Qing) Yuan Mu

Birds flap their wings before flying high, and people learn before making progress. Li Kuchan