A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.
~ Chinese Proverb

A bar of iron continually ground becomes a needle.
~ Chinese Proverb

A beautiful bird is the only kind we cage.
~ Chinese Proverb

A bird can roost but on one branch, a mouse can drink not more than its fill from a river.
~ Chinese Proverb

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
~ Chinese Proverb

A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.
~ Chinese Proverb

A book holds a house of gold.
~ Chinese Proverb

A bride received into the home is like a horse that you have just bought; you break her in by constantly mounting her and continually beating her.
~ Chinese Proverb

A chicken is hatched even from such a well-sealed thing as an egg.
~ Chinese Proverb

A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every passerby leaves a mark.
~ Chinese Proverb

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into none at all.
~ Chinese Proverb

A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.
~ Chinese Proverb

A cloth is not woven from a single thread.
~ Chinese Proverb

A country where flowers are priced so as to make them a luxury has yet to learn the first principles of civilization.
~ Chinese Proverb

A crisis is an opportunity riding the dangerous wind.
~ Chinese Proverb

A day of sorrow is longer than a month of joy.
~ Chinese Proverb

A dog in desperation will leap over a wall.
~ Chinese Proverb

A dog won't forsake his master because of poverty; a son never deserts his mother because of her homely appearance.
~ Chinese Proverb

A fall into a ditch makes you wiser.
~ Chinese Proverb

A flea on top of a bald head.
~ Chinese Proverb