Proverbs with Numbers 1
1. You can recognize a person at a mile and recognize a piece of clothing at a hundred miles.
2. White rice is delicious, but grain fields are difficult to grow.
3. Save a mouthful with one meal and a bucket a year.
4. Good iron needs to be refurbished three times, and a good book needs to be read a hundred times.
5. One year of being bitten by a snake, ten years of being afraid of well ropes.
6. A good sweat protects three villages, and a good dog protects three neighbors.
7. Save a handful a day and buy a horse in ten years.
8. Walk a hundred steps after a meal and live to be ninety-nine.
9. A family does not know its family, and a monk does not know its family.
10. When three people travel together, there must be one who is my teacher.
11. If you don’t come to your door for three years, you won’t even get married.
12. One family’s adopted daughter is sought after by hundreds of families. If one horse fails, hundreds of families will worry about it.
13. The Three Stooges are better than Zhuge Liang.
14. When three people are walking together, there must be my teacher.
15. One man can guard the gate, but ten thousand men cannot open it.
16. The Three Stooges are better than Zhuge Liang.
17. When two tigers fight, one of them will be injured.
18. A day of practice will lead to a day of success. A day without practice will make you empty.
19. A year’s plan starts with spring, a life’s plan starts with diligence.
20. Ten dollars have to be spent and one dollar has to be saved.
21. If you take a hard time, you will gain wisdom.
22. Inseparable from ten.
23. Three years to clear the magistrate, one hundred thousand snowflakes and silver.
24. An inch of time is worth an inch of gold, but an inch of gold cannot buy an inch of time.
25. Nine-nine returns to one.
26. Everything is ready, all we need is the east wind.
27. I only know one, but not the other.
28. It is difficult to develop courage without taking three risks.
29. A thousand miles away.
30. A leaf covers your eyes and you cannot see Mount Tai.
Proverbs with Numbers 2
1. Three miles are different from the countryside, and five miles are different from the customs.
2. The three of them leaned on each other and overturned the stove.
3. If one stitch is not mended, it will be difficult to sew ten stitches.
4. Save a handful a day and buy a horse in ten years.
5. Three points for taking medicine and seven points for conditioning.
6. Save a bite a meal, a bucket a year.
7. One fights and two are ugly, one gives in to both.
8. When eight is ripe, 10% will be harvested; when ten is ripe, 20% will be lost.
9. Ten dollars have to be spent and one dollar has to be saved.
10. It takes three years to accumulate good deeds but no one knows about them, and one day to do bad deeds is heard far and near.
11. A horse is not worthy of two saddles, and it is difficult for one foot to ride on two boats.
12. One person conveys the truth, and a hundred people convey the truth.
13. It is difficult to develop courage without taking three risks.
14. Nine times out of ten.
15. When three people work together, loess turns into gold.
16. Good iron needs to be refurbished three times, and a good book needs to be read a hundred times.
17. One is one, two is two.
18. It is difficult to hold two kinds of wine in one pot, and it is difficult to bloom two kinds of flowers in one tree.
19. A fence has three stakes, and a hero has three gangs.
20. A kind word can warm you in three winters, but a bad word can hurt you in six months.
21. A thousand miles away.
22. Three years to clear the magistrate, one hundred thousand snowflakes and silver.
23. Nine-nine returns to one.
24. A day of practice will lead to a day of success. A day of non-practice will make you empty.
25. Add two to one and make five.
26. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
27. Three points, seven points.
28. It takes ten years to plant trees and a hundred years to rest.
29. Smile three times a day without taking medicine.
30. The Three Stooges are better than Zhuge Liang.