Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Spanish Proverb

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian 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

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

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

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Bulgarian Proverb

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

French Proverb

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

Keats, John

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Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

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First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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

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The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian 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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Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

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

Czech Proverb

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When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

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

German Proverb

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Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

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Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

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

Malayan Proverb

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Don't stay long when the husband is not at home.

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

Scottish Proverb

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The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

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

Dutch Proverb

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Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

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

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

Chinese Proverb

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Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese 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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One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

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

Chinese 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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Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

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Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

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Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb