Great Throughts Treasury

"If you like things easy, you'll have difficulty. If you like problems, you'll succeed."

"When you've heard it you must see it; when you've seen it make a judgement with your heart."

"Listen with one ear; be suspicious with the other."

"Happiness flies away from those who want it most."

"A person?s stripes are inside; those of a tiger are outside."

"A single rotten fish makes a basketful turn bad."

"A tray full of money is not worth a mind full of knowledge."

"Although he who walks behind an elephant may feel very secure, he is likely to get splattered with elephant dung."

"If you must be a servant, serve the rich; if you must be a dog, let it be a temple dog"

"If you like to have things easy, you'll have difficulties; if you like problems, you will succeed."

"Learning means loving the country."

"One has to cross upstream, higher up, to come downstream properly."

"Live with vultures, become a vulture; live with crows, become a crow."

"One piece of wood will not make a fire."

"The voice of a poor man does not carry very far."

"When the buffaloes fight it is the grass that suffers."

"When the water level falls, the ants eat the fish; when the water level rises, the fish eats the ants."

"Ten mouths speaking are not as good as seeing with one?s own eyes; ten eyes that see are not as good as what one has in one?s hand."

"When you have money, you can speak; When you have wood, you can build your home."

"You can bend a young twig, but it is hard to bend an old tree."

"When the water rises, the fish eat the ants; when the water falls, the ants eat the fish."

"You get nothing watering a stump."

"You know, you teach. You do not know, you learn."