Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

- Chinese Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

1.

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

Chinese Proverb

2.

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

Alger, William R.

3.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

4.

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

Dutch Proverb

5.

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

Belgian Proverb

6.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

Bacon, Francis

7.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

8.

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

9.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

11.

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

12.

A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

13.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

14.

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

15.

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

Joubert, Joseph

16.

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

17.

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

18.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

19.

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

Swedish Proverb

20.

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

21.

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

German Proverb

22.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

23.

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

24.

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

Keats, John

25.

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

26.

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

Jewish Proverb

27.

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

Japanese Proverb

28.

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

Jewish Proverb

29.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

30.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

31.

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

Swedish Proverb

32.

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

33.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

34.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

35.

Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

36.

Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

37.

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

Chinese Proverb

38.

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

39.

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

Spanish Proverb

40.

Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.

Indian Proverb

41.

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

42.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

43.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

44.

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

Spanish Proverb

45.

He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

46.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

47.

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

48.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

49.

Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors.

Jewish Proverb

50.

If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.

African Proverb