玉不琢，不成器: A piece of jade unless cut forms no article of vertu. /
十年树木，百年树人 It takes ten years to grow a tree and a hundred years to bring up a generation of good men.
学无止境: knowledge is infinite .
此地无银三百两: never try to prove what nobody doubts.
严师出高徒: Good pupils are to be brought up by strict teachers.
得不偿失: give a lark to catch a kite.
对症下药: a disease known is half the cure.
君子之交淡如水: a hedge between keeps friendship green.
化干戈为玉帛: bury the hatchet.
江山易改，本性难移: the leopard cannot change its spots.
留得青山在，不怕没柴烧: where there is life, there is hope.
狡兔三窟: the mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken.
举一反三: half a tale is enough for a wise man.
当局者迷，旁观者清: outsiders see more than insiders.
世上无难事，只怕有心人: dogged does it.
笨鸟先飞: C: a slow sparrow should make an early start.
拳不离手，曲不离口: no day without a line.
吃一堑，长一智: by falling we learn to go safely.
塞翁失马: no great loss without some small gain.
天无绝人之路: god tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
