Chinese proverbs—both the scholarly sayings of sages like Confucius and Lao Tze and the sayings of common folk—come from that culture’s tradition of shared stories. “They've remained in the culture ...

Confucius says Ivanka Trump made a proverbial social media gaffe. ... – Chinese Proverb,” the first daughter wrote in a tweet that quickly went viral for apparently being fake.

The Chinese proverb that Russia cited to respond to the Mueller report does not appear to be a ... ascribing the quote specifically to Confucius, a famous Chinese philosopher who died in 479 B ...

Confucius is said, in a Chinese work, to have visited him, and to have frankly confessed his inability to understand him. “ I know how birds fly, how fishes swim, how animals run.

Barack drops Chinese proverbs, too By Zhao Huanxin (China Daily) Updated: 2009-11-19 08:16. ... It would be more accurate for him, though, to credit Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC) ...

Neat quote. But it was the first daughter's attribution to "Chinese Proverb" that sent social media sites into overdrive in China, where people scrambled to find who, among their ancestors ...

BEIJING — It was supposed to be a triumphant tweet. World News Ivanka Trump Quotes ‘Chinese Proverb,’ but China Is Baffled ...

Trump has mistakenly quoted "Chinese proverbs" that didn't originate in China before. "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life," she tweeted in 2013, claiming the ...

“A fox isn’t aware its tail stinks” “The foolish old man moved the mountain.” “A closed mouth keeps flies from flying in.” As translated by Asian language professors Larry and Qin Herzberg, the three ...

Ivanka Trump's quote of a Chinese proverb — "Those who say it can not be done, should not interrupt those doing it." — prompted a search for the original source.