Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Oriental Proverb

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

Malayan Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Alger, William R.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

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The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

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Don't fall before you're pushed.

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

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

Chinese Proverb

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Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

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Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

21.

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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You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Irish Proverb

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

Joubert, Joseph

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One kind word can warm three winter months.

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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The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

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It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

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Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

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

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

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

Swedish Proverb

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Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

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Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

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Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

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Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

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

Czech 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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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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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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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

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When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

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A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

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