Great Throughts Treasury

"Recognition is the key to liberation."

"A father deserted by a wise son is like being caught in a shower without a felt."

"A child without education, is like a bird without wings."

"A braggart has no courage, muddy water has no depth."

"A hoe digs, a broom sweeps. (Everything has its proper use)"

"A neighbor is one hundred times better, than a relative a long distance off."

"A hundred male and a hundred female qualities make a perfect human being."

"A precious horse is not valued in regard to its saddle, and people's value is not shown through their treasures."

"A nibbling rabbit can also die of overfeeding."

"A lie is like a jump from a high roof."

"Affairs cannot be handled with a two-pointed mind. Sewing cannot be done with a two pointed needle."

"After calling a dog, one ought not to beat him."

"All the world's Great Journeys begin with the first step."

"All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within."

"Although the lamp is in his hand, the blind man cannot see his way."

"An elephant has enormous dung -- don't try to defecate like an elephant. Don't try to wipe someone else's ass if yours is unwiped."

"An unclean kingdom is filthier than a great swamp."

"Any fool can say Ah -- you need intelligence to say Yes."

"As a thing is viewed, so it appears."

"At the bottom of patience is Heaven."

"As to friends we like the old; As to clothes we like the new."

"Benevolent heart is just like milk, and good words are as a key."

"Attire yourself to be acceptable in another man's world, nourish yourself to be acceptable in your own."

"Better once to see than many times to hear."

"Beat a Chinese long enough and he will talk Tibetan."

"Better than the young man's knowledge is the old man's experience."

"Both flowers and jewelry are lovely if just a few. (One should be modest and not wear all of one’s finery at once nor all of the time.)"

"Brothers may become as enemies. Yet their family ties are golden."

"Clouds are the mistress of the sky. Flesh is the softness of the bones."

"Cold hearts can find warm words."

"By pride one causes virtue to decline."

"Credulity breeds credulity and ends in hypocrisy."

"Cling not to experiences for ever-changing are they."

"Daughters are no better than crows."

"Cure the illness that is not yet an illness."

"Don't be afraid to encounter loneliness. It is a rare opportunity to make friends with oneself."

"Don't praise my good fortune before I'm dead and buried."

"Don't notice the tiny flea in the other person's hair and overlook the lumbering yak on your own nose."

"Don't trust a hungry man to watch your rice."

"Double – minded men cannot handle affairs. With many tasks nothing is ever finished. (Too many irons in the fire)"

"Each lama has his own teaching."

"Eat according to the limits of your provisions; walk according to the length of your step."

"Empty in the heart, lovely in the mouth."

"For so must it be, and help me do my part."

"Eating much of sweetness you do not know if it be sweet anymore."

"For a passing infatuation it is the beauty that counts, for a life-long love it is the goodness that counts."

"Excellent people are honored wherever they go"

"He who has had enough to eat thinks of serving God; the hungry think of stealing."

"Having drunk the country's water, one should obey the country's laws."

"Goodness speaks in a whisper, evil shouts"