Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

Do not employ handsome servants.

- Chinese Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

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

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

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

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

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

Swedish Proverb

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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

11.

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

Belgian Proverb

12.

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

13.

Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

14.

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

15.

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

Latin Proverb

16.

For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use them is a grace, to understand them a good.

Florio, John

17.

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

Sontag, Susan

18.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

19.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

20.

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

Spanish Proverb

21.

Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

22.

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

Czech Proverb

23.

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

24.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

25.

Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.

Jewish Proverb

26.

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

27.

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

28.

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

29.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

30.

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

Jewish Proverb

31.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

32.

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

33.

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

Chinese Proverb

34.

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

German Proverb

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

Scottish Proverb

36.

Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.

Japanese Proverb

37.

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

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

Chinese Proverb

40.

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

Chinese Proverb

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