proverbs

1.

Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

- Arab Proverb

2.

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

- Spanish Proverb

3.

All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.

- Mathews, William

4.

He also who is slack in his work is brother to him who destroys. [Proverbs 18:9]

- Bible

5.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

- Japanese Proverb

6.

Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.

- Baker, Nicholson

7.

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.

8.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

- Bible

9.

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

10.

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

- Dutch Proverb

11.

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

- Bible

12.

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

- Spanish Proverb

13.

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

- Bible

14.

A full cup must be carried steadily.

- English Proverb

15.

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

- Chinese Proverb

16.

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

- Latin Proverb

17.

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

- Slovenian Proverb

18.

See the man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope for a fool than for him. [Proverbs 26:7]

- Bible

19.

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

- Disraeli, Isaac

20.

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