Wolf's Plateau

I've been reading English stuff on Internet for quite some time, and I would say it helped improving my English quite a bit. Among all these readings, one thing that never ceases to amuse me is that I keep seeing quotes labeled as "Chinese proverbs" coming from everywhere, yet I've never heard of. Granted, I am a science student, not a major in Chinese literature or history, but I consider myself quite knowledgable about Chinese proverbs (well, at least much more than most people writing in English). So I have always been wondering if these quotes are really some proverbs that I simply don't know, translations of proverbs I know but understand differently (ancient Chinese IS vague), or just something made-up.

The problem is that I don't have a good memory. Now that I am blogging much more often, I think I can put all the "Chinese proverbs" I see in this blog. Hopefully someday I can figure out the origin of some of them.

Today's quote is from a comment on slashdot: Many laws make many criminals.