Motivational Quotes

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.

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

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

Spanish Proverb

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

Joubert, Joseph

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.

Latin Proverb

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

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

Chinese Proverb

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

10.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

11.

If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.

Spanish 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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The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

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

Czech Proverb

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

Russell, John

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A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

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The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

18.

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

19.

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 think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.

Malayan Proverb

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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

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If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

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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

24.

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

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

Scandinavian Proverb

27.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

28.

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

Chinese Proverb

29.

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

30.

Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

31.

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

32.

Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

33.

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

Belgian Proverb

34.

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

Sontag, Susan

35.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

36.

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

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

Swedish Proverb

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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

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Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

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

Dutch Proverb

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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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