Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Czech Proverb

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

Chinese Proverb

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

Malayan Proverb

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

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

French Proverb

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish 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

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

Russell, John

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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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Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

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Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

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

Latin Proverb

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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

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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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A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

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When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

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Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

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Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Chinese Proverb

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

Bulgarian 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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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 best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

28.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Chinese 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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Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

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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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Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

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The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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A full cup must be carried steadily.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

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One kind word can warm three winter months.