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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.
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Best Quotes about Proverbs

1.
One kind word can warm three winter months.
Japanese proverb

2.
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
Dutch Proverb

3.
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
Slovenian Proverb

4.
Do not employ handsome servants.
Chinese Proverb

5.
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

6.
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

7.
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
Carlyle, Thomas

8.
Never give a child a sword.
Latin Proverb

9.
Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.
Chinese Proverb

10.
Hold a true friend with both hands.
Nigerian Proverb

11.
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.

12.
The palest ink is better than the best memory.
Chinese Proverb

13.
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

14.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
Cervantes, Miguel De

15.
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
Alger, William R.

16.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Bulgarian Proverb

17.
When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.
Albanian Proverb

18.
If you believe everything you read, better not read.
Japanese Proverb

19.
Complain to one who can help you.
Yugoslav Proverb

20.
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Huxley, Aldous

21.
Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.
Jewish Proverb

22.
A proverb is the child of experience.
Proverb, English

23.
Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.
Spanish Proverb

24.
Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.
Kurdish Proverb

25.
Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.
Malayan Proverb

26.
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

27.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Chinese Proverb

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

29.
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

30.
The big thieves hang the little ones.
Czech Proverb

31.
It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.
Latin Proverb

32.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Italian Proverb

33.
Don't stay long when the husband is not at home.
Japanese Proverb

34.
When you drink the water, remember the spring.
Chinese Proverb

35.
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
Japanese Proverb

36.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Chinese Proverb

37.
Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
Swedish Proverb

38.
What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.
Jewish Proverb

39.
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
German Proverb

40.
Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
Sontag, Susan

41.
He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
Jewish Proverb

42.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Chinese Proverb

43.
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
Keats, John

44.
If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
Oriental Proverb

45.
A smiling face is half the meal.
Latvian Proverb

46.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Scandinavian Proverb

47.
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

48.
He who would leap high must take a long run.
Danish Proverb

49.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
African Proverb

50.
Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you.
Belgian Proverb


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