Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

- Chinese Proverb

Best Quotes about 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

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

Chinese Proverb

Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

French Proverb

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

Irish Proverb

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

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

10.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

11.

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

Spanish Proverb

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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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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

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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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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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Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

17.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

18.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

19.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

20.

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

21.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

22.

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

23.

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

Jewish Proverb

24.

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

Scottish Proverb

25.

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

26.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

27.

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

Latin Proverb

28.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

29.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

30.

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

31.

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

32.

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

Swedish Proverb

33.

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 smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

35.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Chinese Proverb

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