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    Best-Loved Chinese Proverbs

    By Theodora Lau, Kenneth Lau and Laura Lau

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    "By filling one's head instead of one's pocket, one cannot be robbed."

    The appeal of Chinese proverbs is profound and universal. With brevity, clarity, and simplicity, these carefully chosen words help pass wisdom and insight throughout the ages. This timeless, eloquent collection of proverbs offers fundamental truths about the natural world and the human condition, on subjects such as:

    Ability • Adversity • Beauty • Character • Conflict Cooperation • Deception • Defeat • Fortune • Greed • Happiness Honor • Inspiration • Knowledge • Leadership • Love Moderation • Necessity • Neighbors • Obstinacy • Opportunity Perseverance • Pride • Sincerity • Strategy • Success Thought • Trust • Victory • Wisdom • And More

    "With our thoughts we must build our world."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 6, 2009
    ISBN9780061979668
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    Best-Loved Chinese Proverbs
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    Theodora Lau

    Theodora Lau was born in Shanghai and has also published Chinese Horoscopes for Your Child.

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    • 4/5
      This is a bit like reading hundreds of fortune cookies, but I enjoyed comparing Chinese to American proverbs. Some are the same, like having eyes bigger than your stomach--and some are totally different and seem to be dependent on a cultural background I don't have. A couple I liked: "Do not have each foot on a different boat," and "The darker the night, the brighter the stars."
    • 5/5
      nice book

    • 3/5
      The Lau family has brought together many, many Chinese proverbs in a slim volume entitled Best-Loved Chinese Proverbs. This short book organizes Chinese traditional sayings into thematic categories arranged alphabetically from those on ability to those on worry. There’s not much more to say here. It’s well put together and dutifully decorated. Some of the more obscure sayings have a small explanatory passage afterwards to help those confused by the proverb. Other than that, it’s a quick little missive you can enjoy in small bites or read in an hour or two. Here are a few of my favorite proverbs:•On discretion: Think before you speak, and do not speak all that you think.•On courtesy: Keeping company with the wicked is like living in a fish market: one becomes used to the foul odor.•On contentment: Laughter is the music of one’s soul. One is never really poor if he can afford to laugh.•On knowledge: By filling one’s head instead of one’s pocket, one cannot be robbed.•On strategy: Do not hit the fly that lands on the tiger’s head.