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If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
- Oriental Proverb
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Best Quotes about Proverbs

1.
Praise youth and it will prosper.
Irish Proverb

2.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Scandinavian Proverb

3.
He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
Jewish Proverb

4.
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

5.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Jewish Proverb

6.
A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
Morley, John

7.
Who begins too much accomplishes little.
German Proverb

8.
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
Alger, William R.

9.
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
Chinese Proverb

10.
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

11.
Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.
Swedish Proverb

12.
Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.
Kurdish Proverb

13.
A smiling face is half the meal.
Latvian Proverb

14.
A full cup must be carried steadily.
English Proverb

15.
Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
Sontag, Susan

16.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Chinese Proverb

17.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
African Proverb

18.
Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks; bleat in a flock of goats.
Malayan Proverb

19.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Spanish Proverb

20.
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Chinese Proverb

21.
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
Chinese Proverb

22.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
Cervantes, Miguel De

23.
Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you.
Belgian Proverb

24.
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
Bacon, Francis

25.
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

26.
What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.
Jewish Proverb

27.
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
Dutch Proverb

28.
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
Keats, John

29.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Italian Proverb

30.
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
Spanish Proverb

31.
Never give a child a sword.
Latin Proverb

32.
When you drink the water, remember the spring.
Chinese Proverb

33.
Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.
Chinese Proverb

34.
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
Carlyle, Thomas

35.
Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.
Spanish Proverb

36.
A proverb is the child of experience.
Proverb, English

37.
Hold a true friend with both hands.
Nigerian Proverb

38.
First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.
Greek Proverb

39.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Chinese Proverb

40.
Do not employ handsome servants.
Chinese Proverb

41.
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
Fuller, R. Buckminster

42.
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
Arab Proverb

43.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Bulgarian Proverb

44.
Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors.
Jewish Proverb

45.
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
German Proverb

46.
He who would leap high must take a long run.
Danish Proverb

47.
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Japanese Proverb

48.
If you bow at all, bow low.
Chinese Proverb

49.
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Irish Proverb

50.
Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.
Indian Proverb


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