Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

- Albanian Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

1.

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

2.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

3.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

4.

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

Bulgarian Proverb

5.

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

Malayan Proverb

6.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

7.

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

8.

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

Jewish Proverb

9.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

10.

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

11.

When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears.

Czech Proverb

12.

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

Bacon, Francis

13.

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

Swedish Proverb

14.

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

15.

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

African Proverb

16.

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

17.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

Chinese Proverb

18.

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

Irish Proverb

19.

Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.

French Proverb

20.

Don't stay long when the husband is not at home.

Japanese Proverb

21.

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

22.

He may justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind.

Johnson, Samuel

23.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

24.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

25.

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

26.

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

27.

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

28.

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

29.

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

30.

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

Dutch Proverb

31.

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

Chinese Proverb

32.

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

33.

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

Chinese Proverb

34.

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

Latin Proverb

35.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

36.

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

Scandinavian Proverb

37.

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

38.

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

Scottish Proverb

39.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

40.

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

Jewish Proverb

41.

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

Chinese Proverb

42.

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

43.

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

Spanish Proverb

44.

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

45.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

46.

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