After three days without reading, talk becomes flavorless.
An ant may well destroy a whole dam.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
A book holds a house of gold.
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Knowing is not as good as loving; loving is not as good as enjoying.
To learn and practise what is learned from time to time is pleasure, is it not? To have friends from afar is happiness, is it not? To be unperturbed when not appreciated by others is a gentleman, is it not?
Review the old and deducing the new makes a teacher.
The gentleman understands righteousness, the petty man understands interest.
Aspire to the principle, behave with virtue, abide by benevolence, and immerse yourself in the arts.
A camel standing amidst a flock of sheep.
Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.
Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think.
Enough shovels of earth - a mountain. Enough pails of water - a river.
Even a hare will bite when it is cornered. Inspirational Posters
A Jade stone is useless before it is processed; a man is good-for-nothing until he is educated.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Judge not the horse by his saddle. Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
Life is a dream walking death is a going home.
Like ants eating a bone.
Lift a stone only to drop on your own feet. Inspirational Posters
Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose, but, follow no one absolutely.
The longer the night lasts, the more our dreams will be.
Looking for the ass on its very back.
The best quality tea must have the creases like the leather boots of
Better to be deprived of food for three days, than tea for one.
Kissing is like drinking tea through a tea-strainer; you're always thirsty afterwards.
Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like earth newly swept by rain. - Lu Wu
There is ordinary and ground tea. What is called cake tea is put in a bottle or jar after being pounded, and the boiling water is poured over it. Sometimes onion, ginger, jujube, orange peel, and peppermint are used, and it is left to boil for some time before the froth is skimmed. Alas! this is the slop water of a ditch. - Lu Wu
The first bowl sleekly moistened throat and lips, The second banished all my loneliness The third expelled the dullness from my mind, Sharpening inspiration gained from all the books I've read. The fourth brought forth light perspiration, Dispersing a lifetime's troubles through my pores. The fifth bowl cleansed ev'ry atom of my being. The sixth has made me kin to the Immortals. This seventh... I can take no more. - Lu Tung, Chinese Poet
Flies never visit an egg that has no crack.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
A good fortune may forbode a bad luck, which may in turn disguise a good fortune.
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish -- very gently.
Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes. Inspirational Posters
"With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown."