玉不琢，不成器：C: A piece of jade unless cut forms no article of vertu. /E: An uncut gem goes not sparkle. / The finest diamond must be cut. /Unpolished pearls never shine.

十年树木，百年树人: C: It takes ten years to grow a tree and a hundred years to bring up a generation of good men. / E: It takes three generations to make a gentleman. 　　 学无止境: C: knowledge is infinite / E: progress sometimes uses a comma, but never a full stop. 　　 此地无银三百两: Never try to prove what nobody doubts. 　　 严师出高徒: C: Good pupils are to be brought up by strict teachers. / E: It is the bridle and spur that makes a good horse. 　　 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. 　　 家和万事兴: He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. 　　 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. / Standers-by see more than gamesters. 　　 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. / E: a lame traveler should get out betimes. 　　 冷暖自知: Every man is best known to himself. 　　 有情人终成眷属: Every jack has Jill. 　　 宁为玉碎不为瓦全: Better death than dishonor. 　　 情人眼里出西施: if jack is in love, he is no judge of Jill’s beauty. 　　 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. 　 　仁者见仁，智者见智: E: the donkey means one thing and the driver another. / C: the benevolent see benevolence and the wise see wisdom. 　 　师傅领进门，修行在个人: No man is his craft’s master the first day.