A bird may be known by its flight.  --Russian Proverbs

A book holds a house of gold.  -- Chinese Proverb

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.  -- Chinese Proverb

A camel standing amidst a flock of sheep.  -- Chinese Proverb

A constant guest is never welcome. -- Proverb

A drop hollows out a stone.  --Russian Proverbs

A drowing man clutches at straw.  --Russian Proverbs

A fly will not come into a closed mouth.  --Russian Proverbs

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.  -- Chinese Proverb

A good fortune may forbode a bad luck, which may in turn disguise a good fortune.  -- Chinese Proverb

A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures. -- Irish Proverb

A Jade stone is useless before it is processed; a man is good-for-nothing until he is educated.  -- Chinese Proverb

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.  -- Chinese Proverb

A kind word is like a spring day.  --Russian Proverbs

A lizard on a cushion will still seek leaves.  --Russian Proverbs

A man should not be struck when he is down.  --Russian Proverbs

A man with little learning is like the frog who thinks its puddle a great sea. -- Burmese Proverb

A man without a wife is like a man in winter without a fur hat.  --Russian Proverbs

A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. -- Central African Proverb

A silent man is not a conquered man.  --Russian Proverbs

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner. -- English Proverb

A spoken word is not a sparrow. Once it flies out, you can't catch it.  --Russian Proverbs

A trout in the pot is worth two salmon in the sea. -- Irish Proverb

A wolf won't eat wolf.  --Russian Proverbs

Add legs to the snake after you have finished drawing it.  -- Chinese Proverb

After a storm fair weather, after sorrow joy.  --Russian Proverbs

After three days without reading, talk becomes flavorless.  -- Chinese Proverb

All are not cooks that walk with long knives.  --Russian Proverbs

All cats are grey at night.  --Russian Proverbs

All is not gold that glitters.  --Russian Proverbs

All is well that ends well.  --Russian Proverbs

An ant may well destroy a whole dam.  -- Chinese Proverb

An enemy will agree, but a friend wil argue.  --Russian Proverbs

An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains.---Dutch Proverb

As you cooked the porridge, so must you eat it.  --Russian Proverbs

As you make your bed, so you will sleep.  --Russian Proverbs

Ask a lot, but take what is offered.  --Russian Proverbs

Aspire to the principle, behave with virtue, abide by benevolence, and immerse yourself in the arts.  -- Chinese Proverb

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.  -- Chinese Proverb

Behind an able man there are always other able men.  -- Chinese Proverb

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.  -- Chinese Proverb

Better late than never.  --Russian Proverbs

Better to be deprived of food for three days, than tea for one.  -- Chinese Proverb

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness  -- Chinese Proverb

Better to stumble than make a slip of the tongue.  --Russian Proverbs

Beware of a quite dog and still water.  --Russian Proverbs

Beware the wrath of a quiet man. -- Chinese Proverb

Children are a poor man's riches. -- English Proverb

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.  -- Chinese Proverb

Devils live in quiet pond.  --Russian Proverbs

Divorce is the sacrament of adultery. -- French Proverb

Do not insult the mother alligator until after you have crossed the river. -- Haitian Proverb

Do not look at gift hourse's mouth.  --Russian Proverbs

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.---African Proverb

Do not make an elephant out of a fly.  --Russian Proverbs

Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. -- Chinese Proverb

Don't lie and you won't have to remember any. -- Chinese Proverb

Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think.  -- Chinese Proverb

Enough shovels of earth a mountain. Enough pails of water a river.  -- Chinese Proverb

Even a hare will bite when it is cornered.  -- Chinese Proverb

Every sandpiper praises his own swamp.  --Russian Proverbs

Every seed knows its time.  --Russian Proverbs

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.  -- Chinese Proverb

Fall seven times, stand up eight. -- Japanese Proverb

Flies never visit an egg that has no crack.  -- Chinese Proverb

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible. ---Traditional Saying

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.  -- Chinese Proverb

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.  -- Jewish Proverb

Govern a family as you would cook a small fish -very gently.  -- Chinese Proverb

Gratitude is the heart's memory. -- French Proverb

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.  -- Chinese Proverb

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.  --Russian Proverbs

He need not search his pockets for words.  --Russian Proverbs

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever. -- Chinese Proverb

He who doesn't risk never gets to drink champagne.  --Russian Proverbs

He who enjoys good health is rich, though he knows it not.---Italian Proverb

He who shames his parents stinks. -- Ethiopian Proverb

Idleness is the mother of all vices.  --Russian Proverbs

If thine enemy wrong thee, buy each of his children a drum. -- Chinese Proverb

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.---Ancient Buddhist Proverb

If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also.  --Russian Proverbs

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid one hundred days of sorrow. -- Chinese Proverb

If you believe that dreams can come true, be prepared for the occasional nightmare too. -- French Proverb

In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats. -- English Proverb

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.---French Proverb

In the kingdom of hope there is no winter.  --Russian Proverbs

It is a bad workman that has a bad saw.  --Russian Proverbs

It is easy to undress the naked.  --Russian Proverbs

It is good to be visiting, but it is better at home.  --Russian Proverbs

It's good to be clever, but not to show it.----French Proverb

Judge not the horse by his saddle. Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.  -- Chinese Proverb

Kissing is like drinking tea through a tea-strainer; you're always thirsty afterwards.  -- Chinese Proverb

Knowing is not as good as loving; loving is not as good as enjoying.  -- Chinese Proverb

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.  -- Chinese Proverb

Life is a dream walking death is a going home.  -- Chinese Proverb

Life is half spent before one knows what it is. -- French Proverb

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.---French Proverb

Life's journey is the reward. ---Chinese Proverb

Lift a stone only to drop on your own feet.  -- Chinese Proverb

Like ants eating a bone.  -- Chinese Proverb

Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. -- American Indian Proverb

Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose, but, follow no one absolutely.  -- Chinese Proverb

Looking for the ass on its very back.  -- Chinese Proverb

May those that love us, love us And those that don't love us, May God turn there hearts, And if he doesn't turn there hearts, May he turn there ankles, So we'll know them by their limping".---Old Irish Saying

May you live a thousand years, and I a thousand less one day; that I might never know the world without you.---Hungarian Traditional

No answer is also an answer."----German Proverb

No matter how much you feed a wolf he will always return to the forest.  --Russian Proverbs

No one is dragged to heaven by the hair.  --Russian Proverbs

No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give. -- French Proverb

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. -- Italian Proverb

One fisherman sees another from afar.  --Russian Proverbs

One kind word can warm three winter months. -- Japanese Proverb

One who sits between two chairs may easily fall down.  --Russian Proverbs

Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet. -- African Proverb

Patience is a bitter plant, but it has a sweet fruit. ---German Proverb

Review the old and deducing the new makes a teacher.  -- Chinese Proverb

Sour, sweet, bitter, pungent, all must be tasted. -- Chinese Proverb

Take the bull by the horns.  --Russian Proverbs

Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be.---German Proverb

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  -- Chinese Proverb

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. -- Chinese Proverb

The appetite comes during a meal.  --Russian Proverbs

The best quality tea must have the creases like the leather boots of  -- Chinese Proverb

The drowning man is not troubled by rain. -- Persian Proverb

The end is the crown of any work.  --Russian Proverbs

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  -- Chinese Proverb

The gentleman understands righteousness, the petty man understands interest.  -- Chinese Proverb

The greatest love is a mother's, then a dog's, then a sweetheart's. -- Polish Proverb

The hammer shatters glass but forges steel.  --Russian Proverbs

The lazier a man is, the more he plans to do tomorrow.---Norwegian Proverb

The longer the night lasts, the more our dreams will be.  -- Chinese Proverb

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.---Chinese Proverb

The offender never forgives.  --Russian Proverbs

The old bear falls into the old trap.  --Russian Proverbs

The one who draws the cart is urged on.  --Russian Proverbs

The road to a friend's house is never long. -- Danish Proverb

The sun will shine into our yard too.  --Russian Proverbs

The tongue speaks, but the head doesn't know.  --Russian Proverbs

The universe is ruled by letting things take their course. It cannot be ruled by interfering. -- Chinese Proverb

The wolf will hire himself out very cheaply as a shepherd.  --Russian Proverbs

There are no formalities between the closest of friends. ---Japanese Proverb

There is no evil without good.  --Russian Proverbs

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  -- Chinese Proverb

There will be trouble if the cobbler starts making pies.  --Russian Proverbs

Those who wish to sing always find a song.---Swedish proverb

To ask is no sin and to be refused is no calamity.  --Russian Proverbs

To change and to change for the better are two different things. -- German Proverb

To him who is determined it remains only to act.---Italian Proverb

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?  -- Chinese Proverb

Trust in Allah, but tie your camel. -- Arabian Proverb

What good is running if one is on the wrong road? -- English Proverb

When the pupil is ready, the teacher will appear. -- Native American Proverb

When we sing everybody hears us; when we sigh, nobody hears us.  --Russian Proverbs

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

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.  -- Chinese Proverb

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves. ---German Proverb

Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.---German Proverb

Wild ducks and tomorrow both come without calling.  --Russian Proverbs

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.  -- Chinese Proverb

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown. -- Chinese Proverb

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at the present. ---English Proverb

Years and sins are always more than owned. -- Italian Proverb

You do not need a whip to urge on an obedient horse.  --Russian Proverbs

You do not swap horses while crossing the ford.  --Russian Proverbs

You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. -- American Proverb