Chinese & Other Proverbs

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is today. -Chinese Proverb

If you are planning for a year, sow rice. If you are planning for a decade, plant trees. If you are planning for a lifetime, educate people. -Chinese Proverb

If you can talk, you can sing; if you can walk, you can dance. -African Proverb

Tell me who's your friend, and I'll tell you who you are.

-Russian Proverb

A joy that's shared is a joy made double.

-John Ray, English Proverbs

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.

-Swedish Proverb

Man plans; God laughs. -Yiddish Saying

When elephants fight, the grass always is the one that suffers. -Swahili Saying

As a nail sticketh between a door and a hinge, so sticketh sin between buying and selling. -Anabaptist Saying

Wherever the heart is, the feet don't hesitate to go.

-Togo Saying

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a way so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. -Indian Proverb

Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick.

-Bantu Proverb

No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. -Zen Saying

The death of an old person is like the loss of a library.

-African Proverb

Money is a good servant but a bad master.

-H.G.Bohn, Handbook of Proverbs

Danger and delight grow on one stalk. -English Proverb

When "Do not evil" has been understood, then learn the harder, braver rule, "Do good."

-Arthur Guiterman, A Poet's Proverbs

The beginning of health is to know the disease.

-Spanish Proverb

It is part of the cure to wish to be cured. -Latin Proverb

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book. -Irish Proverb