Mizmo
Well-known Member
- Location
- Ontario, Canada
Selections from "Chinese Proverbs from Olden Times",
(c) 1956 Peter Pauper Press, loosely organized into
four categories: Speech, Conduct, Teaching/Learning,
and Reminders.
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SPEECH
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The swiftest horse
cannot overtake
a word once spoken
Two good talkers...
not worth
one good listener
In multitudes of words
surely some mistakes
Water and words...
easy to pour
impossible to recover
Too much talk
beware trouble...
too much food
beware indigestion
If the first words fail...
ten thousand
will not then avail
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CONDUCT
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Honest scales
and full measure
hurt no man
You want no one
to know it?...
then don't do it
Forget the favors
you have given...
remember those received
The careful foot
can walk anywhere
The saving man
becomes the free man
Laws control
the lesser man...
right conduct controls
the greater one
The wise man
hearkens to his mind...
the foolish man
to his cronies
If you always give
you will always have
Men fated to be happy
need not haste
The wise man tarries not
to instruct the fool
Three early risings
make an extra day
Slow work... fine work
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TEACHING/LEARNING
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To know the road ahead
ask those coming back
A good teacher...
better than a barrowful
of books
Learning is a treasure
no thief can touch
Teachers open the door...
you enter by yourself
No road to happiness
or sorrow...
find them in yourself
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REMINDERS
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A good neighbour...
a found treasure
The mind...
emperor of the body
At birth we come
at death we go...
bearing nothing
(c) 1956 Peter Pauper Press, loosely organized into
four categories: Speech, Conduct, Teaching/Learning,
and Reminders.
------
SPEECH
------
The swiftest horse
cannot overtake
a word once spoken
Two good talkers...
not worth
one good listener
In multitudes of words
surely some mistakes
Water and words...
easy to pour
impossible to recover
Too much talk
beware trouble...
too much food
beware indigestion
If the first words fail...
ten thousand
will not then avail
-------
CONDUCT
-------
Honest scales
and full measure
hurt no man
You want no one
to know it?...
then don't do it
Forget the favors
you have given...
remember those received
The careful foot
can walk anywhere
The saving man
becomes the free man
Laws control
the lesser man...
right conduct controls
the greater one
The wise man
hearkens to his mind...
the foolish man
to his cronies
If you always give
you will always have
Men fated to be happy
need not haste
The wise man tarries not
to instruct the fool
Three early risings
make an extra day
Slow work... fine work
-----------------
TEACHING/LEARNING
-----------------
To know the road ahead
ask those coming back
A good teacher...
better than a barrowful
of books
Learning is a treasure
no thief can touch
Teachers open the door...
you enter by yourself
No road to happiness
or sorrow...
find them in yourself
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REMINDERS
---------
A good neighbour...
a found treasure
The mind...
emperor of the body
At birth we come
at death we go...
bearing nothing
