Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

- African Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.

Chinese Proverb

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

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.

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

Joubert, Joseph

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

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

Swedish Proverb

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

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Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

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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

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

Jewish Proverb

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Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

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Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

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

Russell, John

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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

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Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

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

Malayan Proverb

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Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

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A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

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The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

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

Bacon, Francis

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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

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

Irish Proverb

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

Dutch Proverb

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Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

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

Oriental Proverb

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One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

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Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

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

Keats, John

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Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Scottish Proverb

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Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

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A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

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Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

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Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.

Japanese Proverb

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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

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The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Huxley, Aldous

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When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

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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

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

Spanish Proverb