Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

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

Malayan Proverb

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

Don't fall before you're pushed.

English 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

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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.

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

Swedish 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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Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.

Alger, William R.

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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

Bacon, Francis

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

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Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

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Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

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A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

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

Belgian Proverb

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It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

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When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

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Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

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

Oriental Proverb

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Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

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If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

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The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

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

Scandinavian Proverb

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

Swedish Proverb

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

Huxley, Aldous

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If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian 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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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

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A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

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If you bow at all, bow low.