Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

Czech Proverb

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

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

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.

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Malayan Proverb

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

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If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

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The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

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First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

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

Japanese Proverb

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

Bulgarian Proverb

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A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Don't fall before you're pushed.

English 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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What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

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The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

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He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian 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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The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.

Scottish Proverb

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Hold a true friend with both hands.