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

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

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

Malayan Proverb

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

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

Czech Proverb

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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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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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

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

Russell, John

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Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

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Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish 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 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

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

Spanish Proverb

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Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.

Chinese Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

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The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

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

Japanese Proverb

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A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

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Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

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The best armor is to keep out of range.

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

Latin Proverb

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

Swedish Proverb

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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

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Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.