Chinese New Year Proverb Cards

Send the warmest wishes to your loved ones for the year ahead with our Chinese New Year proverb cards.

	Keep a Green Tree Keep a Green tree in your HEART and perhaps a signing bird will come..

	Chinese Proverb One generation plants the trees...

	Chinese Proverb card.. Blame yourself as you blame others..

	May You Get May you get what you wish for...

	Chinese Child Proverb There is only one pretty child in the world And every mothers has it..

Chinese Proverbs
The swiftest horse can't overtake a word once spoken .................................... Tile tossed over the wall. . . who knows where it will fall? .................................... No horse can wear two saddles .................................... While you are bargaining, conceal your coin .................................... No guests at home, no hosts abroad .................................... "I heard" is good; "I saw" is better .................................... We can study until old age. . . and still not finish .................................... A good teacher. . . better than a barrowful of books .................................... Teachers open the door; you enter by yourself .................................... In bed be wife and husband, in the hall each other's honored guest .................................... To stop drinking, study a drunkard while you are sober .................................... Without sorrows no one becomes a saint .................................... The pine stays green in winter. . . wisdom in hardship .................................... Three feet of ice were not frozen in a day .................................... With virtue you can't be completely poor; without it you can't be truly rich .................................... Determination tempers the sword of your character .................................... Stout men, not stout walls, make the stout city .................................... To be heard afar, bang your gong on a hilltop .................................... Great doubts, deep wisdom. . . small doubts, little wisdom .................................... To know others, know yourself first .................................... His virtues exceed his talents--a superior man .................................... When the waters drop, the rocks appear .................................... Before telling secrets on the road, look in the bushes .................................... A bad word whispered echoes a hundred miles .................................... In a flood of words, surely some mistakes .................................... A sharp tongue or pen can kill without a knife .................................... If the first words fail, ten thousand will then not avail .................................... Watching chess games in silence. . .a superior person .................................... The judge with seven reasons states only one in court .................................... If you want no one to know, don't do it .................................... If you want your dinner, don't insult the cook .................................... Honest scales and full measure hurt no one .................................... Divide an orange--it tastes just as good .................................... If you always give you will always have .................................... Better lean and good than fat and evil .................................... To build it took one hundred years; to destroy it one day .................................... Touch black paint, have black fingers .................................... The ripest fruit falls by itself .................................... If you don't want anyone to know, don't do it. .................................... There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same .................................... Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. .................................... If you hurry through long days, you will hurry through short years .................................... A rat who gnaws at a cat's tail invites destruction.	.................................... Be the first to the field and the last to the couch. .................................... Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom. .................................... O eggs, don't fight with rocks .................................... Easier to rule a nation than a child .................................... To have principles first have courage .................................... Blame yourself as you blame others; forgive others as you forgive yourself .................................... The wise listens to her mind, the foolish to the mob .................................... A whitewashed crow soon shows black again .................................... Watch over workers at their labors, not their meals .................................... Many a good face under a ragged hat .................................... Dogs have no prejudice against the poor. .................................... To know the road ahead, ask those returning. .................................... To succeed, consult three old people. .................................... Simple to open a shop; another thing to keep it open. .................................... What you don't see, you don't desire. .................................... Neither fortunes nor flowers last forever. .................................... An inch of gold can't buy an inch of time. .................................... Don't waste your hour--the sun sets soon. .................................... My life--a candle in the wind. . . frost on the leaves. .................................... Nurture the plant one year--ten days of flowers. .................................... Slow work--fine work. .................................... If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. .................................... If heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. .................................... If you bow at all, bow low. .................................... Do good, reap good; do evil, reap evil. .................................... At birth we bring our nothing; at death we leave with the same. .................................... A king's riches cannot buy an extra year. .................................... Beat the drum inside the house to spare the neighbors. .................................... Climb the mountains to see lowlands. .................................... Laws control a lesser person; right conduct controls a greater one. .................................... Forget the favors given; remember those received .................................... A careful foot can step anywhere. .................................... Stare at the profit and step in the pitfall. .................................... Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. .................................... Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come. .................................... He who strikes the first blow admits he's lost the argument. .................................... He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. .................................... Outside noisy, inside empty. .................................... He who is drowned is not troubled by the rain. .................................... To talk much and arrive nowhere is the same as climbing a tree to catch a fish. .................................... One generation plants the trees, and another gets the shade. ....................................