Proverbs
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
- Huxley, Aldous
- Huxley, Aldous
Proverbs are in the world of thought what gold coin is in the world of business - great value in small compass, and equally current among all people. Sometimes the proverb may be false, the coin counterfeit, but in both cases the false proves the value of the true.
- D. March
- D. March
If you bow at all, bow low.
- Chinese Proverb
- Chinese Proverb
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
- Scandinavian Proverb
- Scandinavian Proverb
For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. [Proverbs 24:16]
- Bible
- Bible
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
- German Proverb
- German Proverb
Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
- Swedish Proverb
- Swedish Proverb
A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]
- Bible
- Bible
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
- Italian Proverb
- Italian Proverb
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
- Japanese Proverb
Complain to one who can help you.
- Yugoslav Proverb
- Yugoslav Proverb
First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.
- Greek Proverb
- Greek Proverb
A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]
- Bible
- Bible
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
- Cervantes, Miguel De
- Cervantes, Miguel De
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
- Keats, John
- Keats, John
If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
- Oriental Proverb
- Oriental Proverb
Do not employ handsome servants.
- Chinese Proverb
- Chinese Proverb
Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.
- Jewish Proverb
- Jewish Proverb
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
- Alger, William R.
- Alger, William R.
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor


















