Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

- Arab Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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.

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

Sontag, Susan

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

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

African Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

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

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

11.

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

Scandinavian Proverb

12.

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

Jewish Proverb

13.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

14.

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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If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

16.

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

17.

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

Joubert, Joseph

18.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

19.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

20.

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

21.

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

22.

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

Chinese Proverb

23.

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

24.

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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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

26.

Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

27.

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

French Proverb

28.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

29.

He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

30.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

31.

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

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

Bulgarian Proverb

34.

Don't you go believing in sayings, Picotee: they are all made by men, for their own advantages. Women who use public proverbs as a guide through events are those who have not ingenuity enough to make private ones as each event occurs.

Hardy, Thomas

35.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

36.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian 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.