20 Chinese Proverbs about Ants
All Chinese Proverbs | Proverbs about Ants1. Do not employ handsome servants.
2. A hasty man never wants woe.
3. One generation plants the trees, another gets the shade.
4. Priests return to the temple, merchants to the shop.
5. The one who plants the tree is not the one who will enjoy its shade.
6. Believe your servants but do not listen to them.
7. He who wants to be a dragon must eat many little snakes.
8. If a rat wants to die it bites a cat's tail.
9. If your books are not read, your descendants will be ignorant.
10. Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men.
11. The human heart is never satisfied, just like the snake that wants to swallow an elephant.
12. There are three kinds of person that you must not challenge: civil servants, customers and widows.
13. Whoever buys a house must examine the beams; whoever wants a wife must look at her mother.
14. If a man plants melons he will reap melons; if he sows beans, he will reap beans.
15. Teach your descendants the two proper roads - literature and farming.
16. Our needs are few but our wants increase with our possessions.
17. Like ants gnawing at a bone.
18. A man's greed is like a snake that wants to swallow an elephant.
19. Thunder is louder than the little rain warrants.
20. You won't help the new plants grow by pulling them up higher.
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