Great Throughts Treasury

"He who knows a great deal has a hundred eyes."

"Horses stepping on soft land will slip and fall, and people listening to sugary words will be deceived."

"If I know I will die tomorrow, I can still learn something tonight."

"If it is here, it is everywhere. If it is not here, it is nowhere."

"If I tell you my dream, you might forget it. If I act on my dream, perhaps you will remember it, but if I involve you, it becomes your dream too."

"If one eat much honey, it makes the liver sick. If one talk much, the words are like blowing a goat’s horn."

"If peace reigns in the land, a nun can govern it."

"If the inner mind is not deluded, the outer actions will not be wrong."

"If there is no solution to the problem then don’t waste time worrying about it. If there is a solution to the problem then don’t waste time worrying about it."

"If the hand cannot catch the flea. Let not the mouth slay the tiger."

"If the master gets drunk it is an honorable drunkenness; if the servant does it is evidence of his mean disposition."

"If there is only one earring among seven daughters, there will always be a quarrel on festival days."

"If water is clear. The fish can be seen. (We will know in time the truth or falsity of talk.)"

"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid a hundred days of sorrow."

"If you don't know where you are, any road will do."

"If you want to know your future, look at what you are doing in this moment."

"If your inner mind isn’t deceived, your outer actions won’t be wrong."

"Imagination cures the chaos in the heart."

"In the beginning eat your meal, afterwards cut down the fir tree. (Eat first to have strength for the work)."

"It is better to live for one day as a tiger than to live for a thousand years as a sheep."

"It is easier to put leather on the soles of one's feet than cover the world with leather."

"It is easy to do work in a small house, It is easy to deceive those of little mind."

"It is easy to see the fly on the other person's nose, while ignoring the horse on your own."

"Kill five men, wound ten and capture twenty."

"It is hard work to be the mother of many pigs."

"Knowing just one word of wisdom is like knowing a hundred ordinary words."

"Landing a single punch on your enemies nose is more satisfying than hearing well-intentioned advice from your elders."

"Learn what you want and leave or others."

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."

"Learn to stand up where one falls."

"Like fine satin on the outside, like barley bag on the inside."

"Lies are short-lived."

"Master and servant -- both have the same body odor."

"Luck that lasts is always suspected."

"Long arms, short sleeves. (A person has great ambition but is poverty stricken.)"

"Medicine that heals is not always sweet and caring words are not always pleasant."

"Men will always lose the battle against cholera and bureaucracy."

"Misfortune and happiness reside in the spirit. Heat and cold reside in the hands of the sun."

"My enemy's liver is the sheath of my sword."

"No Lama knows where the ber-chhen will hurt him until he puts it on."

"Nothing is ever difficult once you get used to it."

"Nothing more brilliant than sun and moon, nothing more numerous than the stars."

"One good punch on your enemy's nose, gives more pleasure than hearing well-meaning advice from your elders."

"No matter if you eat a little or a lot of garlic, the smell is just as strong."

"Never play leap frog with a unicorn."

"One has to know joy and pain to recognize happiness and misfortune."

"Only a certain amount of flowers and jewels are beautiful."

"One mouth, two tongues. (Two-faced)"

"Our best masters are those who make us suffer the most."

"People should not be involved into conflicts - just like a tree should not have knots."