Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors.

- Jewish Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.

Joubert, Joseph

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.

Seneca

What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.

Jewish Proverb

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.

Scandinavian Proverb

Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks; bleat in a flock of goats.

Malayan Proverb

A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.

German Proverb

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

10.

For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use them is a grace, to understand them a good.

Florio, John

11.

No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate.

Dahlberg, Edward

12.

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

13.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

14.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

15.

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

16.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

17.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

18.

He may justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind.

Johnson, Samuel

19.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

20.

Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.

Scottish Proverb

21.

A collections of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.

Spanish Proverb

23.

Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you.

Belgian Proverb

24.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

25.

There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.

Carlyle, Thomas

26.

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.

Latin Proverb

27.

It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.

Latin Proverb

28.

Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.

French Proverb

29.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

Chinese Proverb

30.

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

31.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

32.

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

33.

A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.

Russell, John

34.

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

35.

Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.

Swedish Proverb

36.

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.

Dutch Proverb

37.

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

Cervantes, Miguel De

38.

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

39.

Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.

Bulgarian Proverb

40.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

41.

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

42.

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

Chinese Proverb

43.

A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.

Keats, John

44.

Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are richly stored with it, and that is the main object to seek in reading books.

Morely, John

45.

Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.

Jewish Proverb

46.

If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.

Spanish Proverb

47.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

Huxley, Aldous

48.

Don't stay long when the husband is not at home.