Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Proverbs

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

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

Dutch Proverb

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

Czech Proverb

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

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.

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

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

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

Bacon, Francis

10.

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

11.

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

Scottish Proverb

12.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

13.

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

14.

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

Chinese Proverb

15.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

16.

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

17.

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

Malayan Proverb

18.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

19.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

20.

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

21.

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

22.

Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.

Chinese Proverb

23.

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

24.

Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

25.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

26.

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

Jewish Proverb

27.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

28.

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

29.

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

30.

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian 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

32.

Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

33.

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

Chinese Proverb

34.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

35.

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

Jewish Proverb

36.

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

French Proverb

37.

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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Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks; bleat in a flock of goats.

Malayan Proverb

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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

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

Russell, John

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

Oriental Proverb

42.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

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Who begins too much accomplishes little.