If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.
I need not fear my enemies because the most they can do is attack me. I need not fear my friends because the most they can do is betray me. But I have much to fear from people who are indifferent.
Gluttony kills more than the sword.
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Great doubts deep wisdom. Small doubts little wisdom.
The face is the index of the mind.
Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.
Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.
Among the blind the one eyed is king.
To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much and doing nothing.
You won't help shoots grow by pulling them up higher.
The greatest conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow.
The greatest conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow.
He who pays the piper calls the tune.
Try and trust will move mountains.
Measure three times before you cut once.
The eye is the mirror of the soul.
Nothing is more noble than politeness, and nothing more ridiculous than ceremony.
Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.
A maker of idols is never an idolater.
As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.
A sly rabbit will have three openings to its den.
Add legs to the snake after you have finished drawing it.
No wonder lasts over three days.
Gossiping and lying go hand in hand.
Many lick before they bite.
Short judgments make long friends.
Kill one to warn a hundred.
How beautiful is it to do nothing, and then rest afterward.
The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.
Speedy exception is the mother of good fortune.
Everyone pushes a falling fence.
People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.
A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home.
If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.
He has hard work who has nothing to do.
There is nothing certain, but the uncertain.
He that is doing nothing is seldom in need of helpers.
The first mistake are theirs who commit them, the second are theirs that permit them.
All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.
I need not fear my enemies because the most they can do is attack me. I need not fear my friends because the most they can do is betray me. But I have much to fear from people who are indifferent.