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Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
- Alger, William R.
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Best Quotes about Proverbs

1.
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
Chinese Proverb

2.
A smiling face is half the meal.
Latvian Proverb

3.
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
Russell, John

4.
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

5.
Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.
Wall Street Proverb

6.
Complain to one who can help you.
Yugoslav Proverb

7.
A proverb is the child of experience.
Proverb, English

8.
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
Carlyle, Thomas

9.
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Japanese Proverb

10.
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
Slovenian Proverb

11.
What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.
Jewish Proverb

12.
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

13.
Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.
Spanish Proverb

14.
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

15.
Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.
Kurdish Proverb

16.
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
Japanese Proverb

17.
Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.
Jewish Proverb

18.
He who would leap high must take a long run.
Danish Proverb

19.
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

20.
A full cup must be carried steadily.
English Proverb

21.
When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears.
Czech Proverb

22.
Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
Sontag, Susan

23.
He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
Jewish Proverb

24.
When you drink the water, remember the spring.
Chinese Proverb

25.
Never give a child a sword.
Latin Proverb

26.
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

27.
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

28.
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
Arab Proverb

29.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Bulgarian Proverb

30.
Don't fall before you're pushed.
English Proverb

31.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Italian Proverb

32.
Don't stay long when the husband is not at home.
Japanese Proverb

33.
Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.
Malayan Proverb

34.
One kind word can warm three winter months.
Japanese proverb

35.
The big thieves hang the little ones.
Czech Proverb

36.
Praise youth and it will prosper.
Irish Proverb

37.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Chinese Proverb

38.
Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.
Chinese Proverb

39.
If you believe everything you read, better not read.
Japanese Proverb

40.
When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.
Albanian Proverb

41.
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Chinese Proverb

42.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
African Proverb

43.
Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.
Jewish Proverb

44.
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
Dutch Proverb

45.
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

46.
Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors.
Jewish Proverb

47.
Do not employ handsome servants.
Chinese Proverb

48.
They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.
Joubert, Joseph

49.
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

50.
Make your bargain before beginning to plow.
Arab Proverb


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