Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

- Chinese Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Belgian Proverb

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

Huxley, Aldous

Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

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

Latin Proverb

A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

11.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

12.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

13.

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

Oriental Proverb

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

French 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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A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Chinese Proverb

22.

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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One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

24.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

25.

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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Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.

Scandinavian Proverb

27.

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

Japanese Proverb

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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

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

Dutch Proverb

30.

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

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Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

32.

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

33.

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

Czech Proverb

34.

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

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Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

36.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Swedish Proverb

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

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Bulgarian Proverb

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

German Proverb

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Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

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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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If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

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

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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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