proverbs

1.

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

- Huxley, Aldous

2.

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

3.

If you bow at all, bow low.

- Chinese Proverb

4.

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

- Scandinavian Proverb

5.

For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. [Proverbs 24:16]

- Bible

6.

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

- German Proverb

7.

Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.

- Swedish Proverb

8.

A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

- Bible

9.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

- Italian Proverb

10.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

- Japanese Proverb

11.

Complain to one who can help you.

- Yugoslav Proverb

12.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

- Greek Proverb

13.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

- Bible

14.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

15.

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

- Keats, John

16.

If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.

- Oriental Proverb

17.

Do not employ handsome servants.

- Chinese Proverb

18.

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

- Jewish Proverb

19.

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.

- Alger, William R.

20.

What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor