Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Scandinavian Proverb

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

German Proverb

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Swedish Proverb

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

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Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

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Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.

Spanish 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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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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Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

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

Czech Proverb

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The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

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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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If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

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If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

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Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

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

African Proverb

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The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

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Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

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Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.

Indian Proverb

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

Malayan Proverb

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He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

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It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

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

Sontag, Susan

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A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.

Keats, John

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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

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The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

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

Latin Proverb

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

Scottish Proverb

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

Swedish Proverb

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Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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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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Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

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Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

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A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

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Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

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Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

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Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.

French Proverb

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Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

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Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish 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