1 天下無難事 There is nothing difficult under the sun
2 少壯不努力 If youthful years are not well spent
3 一寸光陰一寸金 An inch of time is an inch of gold
4 百聞不如一見 Seeing once is better than hearing
5 麻維雖小 A sparrow is small
6 取人之長 Take other’s virtues to make up for one’s failings
7 無風不起浪 There will be no waves without wind
8 求人不如求己 To ask of others is not as good as to
9 吃得苦中苦 One must endure the bitterest struggle to
10 不見高山 Until one sees the mountains
11 天無絕人之路 Heaven never leaves a man
12 一年之計在於春 What’s done in spring determines
13 牛頭不對馬嘴 An ox’s head doesn’t fit a horse’s mouth
14 平時不燒香 To forget the daily offerings
15 天機不可洩漏 The will of heaven cannot be revealed
16 一心不能二用 One cannot do two things at once
17 大難不死 When one has survived a calamity
18 江山易改 Man’s nature is more difficult to change than
19 看花容易繡花難 It’s easy to look at flowers but
20 有借有還 To return what one borrows makes it easy to
21 情人眼裡出西施 A lover’s ease see Xishi
22 家醜不可外揚 Family scandal should not be made public
23 一分耕耘 One reaps only as much as he sows
24 生米已成熟飯 The rice is cooked
25 福無雙全 Good fortune comes not in pairs
26 喝水不忘掘井人 When drinking frome the well
27 前人種樹 One generation plants trees
28 常在河邊走 If one often walks by the river bank, he
29 天下烏鴉一般黑 All crows are black
30 遠在天邊 As far as the edge of the world
31 只聽樓梯響 The stairway creaks but no one
32 初生之犢不畏虎
