Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

- Albanian Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Russell, John

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

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

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

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

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

Japanese Proverb

Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

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

Swedish Proverb

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Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

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

French 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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Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

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

African Proverb

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

Czech Proverb

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Chinese Proverb

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The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

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Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

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I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure. Sometimes I think that all our learning is the little learning of the maxim. To laugh at a Roman awe-stricken in a sacred grove is to laugh at something today.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Jewish Proverb

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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

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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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No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you.

Belgian Proverb

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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian 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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Don't fall before you're pushed.