Idioms and aphorisms

1. A slight mistake can make a difference of a thousand miles.

2. Learning is gained through hard work.

3. It is better to be broken jade than to be complete.

4. Learn how to swim while standing on the shore.

5. When a car reaches the mountain, it will find its way, and when a boat reaches the bridge, it will naturally go straight.

6. The sea is wide enough for fish to jump, and the mountains are high enough for birds to fly.

7. Where there is sincerity, gold and stone will open.

8. Since ancient times, no one has ever died, leaving a loyal heart to illuminate history.

9. Those who share the same virtues are of the same mind, and those who share the same heart are comrades.

10. A single thread cannot make a thread, and a single tree cannot make a forest.

11. Do not do evil because it is small, and do not do good because it is small.

12. A thousand-mile embankment collapses in an ant nest.

13. When three people are walking together, there must be one who is my teacher. Choose the good ones and follow them, and change the bad ones.

14. Learn and then don’t know enough.

15. The mantis stalks the cicada, followed by the oriole.

16. If you have ambitions, you will not grow old. If you have no ambitions, you will live a hundred years in vain.

17. When a person is about to die, his words are also good.

18. There is no place to be found even if you wear iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it.

19. Read thousands of volumes and write like a master.

20. Review the past and learn the new.

21. The spring water cannot be drained, and the knowledge cannot be exhausted.

22. Do more good things and avoid evil things.

23. If you want others not to know, you have to do nothing unless you do it yourself.

24. A leopard can be seen in a tube.

25. Everyone is destined to die. It may be heavier than Mount Tai or lighter than a feather.

26. If you are full, you will suffer losses, but if you are modest, you will benefit.

27. Eggplants do not bloom false flowers, and real people do not tell lies.

28. Xiang Zhuang danced with the sword, aiming at Pei Gong.

29. Good medicine is bitter in the mouth and good for the disease; honest advice is bad for the ears but good for the deeds.

30. It is not more valuable than having no mistakes, but more valuable than being able to correct them.

31. Learning is too much.

32. The beauty of a gentleman is not the evil of a man.

33. The tree that hugs each other is born from the smallest grain; the nine-story platform starts from tired soil; the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

34. When a prince breaks the law, he is guilty of the same crime as the common people.

35. Work is accomplished by hard work, but wasteful by playfulness; success is achieved by thinking, and destroyed by casualness.

36. People are not saints, and no one can make mistakes.

37. If you are not afraid of people making mistakes, you are afraid of not correcting them.

38. Don’t talk about it for three days, and don’t do it with your hands for three days.

39. Remember the good deeds of others and forget their faults.

40. Smart and eager to learn, and not ashamed to ask questions.

41. If jade is not polished, it will not become a tool; if a person does not learn, he will not know.

42. Good things cannot be lost, and evil things cannot last.

43. Born in sorrow and died in happiness.

44. Flowers will bloom again, and people will never be young again.

45. Isn’t it true that one should learn from time to time?

46. Read three hundred Tang poems by heart, and can recite them even if you can’t compose them.

47. Be tireless in learning and teaching.

48. Fire should be hollow, and people should be solid.

49. It is not too late to make amends.

50. A tree has many uses, and a person has many friends.

51. Work hard and die.

52. A blessing in disguise.

53. A good memory is not as good as a bad writing.

54. A towering pine cannot grow in a flowerpot, and a thousand-mile horse cannot be trained in a courtyard.

55. If you don’t know, ask; if you don’t know, learn.

56. What is lost in the east is gained in the mulberry tree. (www.lz13.cn)

57. It is better to enrich yourself with knowledge than to decorate yourself with jewelry.

58. He who knows others is wise, and he who knows himself is wise.

59. The road is long and long, and I will search up and down.

60. Gold and jade are on the outside, but there is decay inside.