Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

- Chinese Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian 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

Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

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

Alger, William R.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

10.

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

Scottish Proverb

11.

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

Chinese Proverb

12.

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

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

Latin Proverb

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

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

Japanese Proverb

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

Oriental Proverb

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A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

23.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

24.

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

Chinese Proverb

25.

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

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If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

27.

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

28.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

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Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

30.

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

31.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

32.

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

Czech Proverb

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

Belgian Proverb

34.

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

35.

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

Spanish Proverb

36.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese 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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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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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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Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

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Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

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Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

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