Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

Do not employ handsome servants.

- Chinese Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

1.

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

Chinese Proverb

2.

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

Swedish Proverb

3.

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

4.

There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.

Carlyle, Thomas

5.

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

Russell, John

6.

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

Swedish Proverb

7.

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

8.

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

Latin Proverb

9.

Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

10.

He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

11.

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

12.

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

Chinese Proverb

13.

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

Chinese Proverb

14.

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

15.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

16.

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

17.

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

18.

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

19.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

20.

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

Irish Proverb

21.

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

22.

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

Malayan Proverb

23.

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

Joubert, Joseph

24.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

25.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

26.

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

Jewish Proverb

27.

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

28.

Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you.

Belgian Proverb

29.

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

30.

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

31.

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

Keats, John

32.

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

Jewish Proverb

33.

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

Latin Proverb

34.

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

35.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

36.

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

37.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

38.

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

Oriental Proverb

39.

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

Dutch Proverb

40.

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

Spanish Proverb

41.

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

Chinese Proverb

42.

Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

43.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

44.

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

45.

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

46.

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

Spanish Proverb

47.

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

48.

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

Bulgarian Proverb

49.

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