Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

Best Quotes about Proverbs

Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks; bleat in a flock of goats.

Malayan Proverb

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

African Proverb

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

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

10.

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.

11.

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

Oriental Proverb

12.

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

13.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

14.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

15.

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

Jewish Proverb

16.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

17.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

18.

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

19.

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

Latin Proverb

20.

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

Chinese Proverb

21.

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

Dutch Proverb

22.

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

23.

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

Irish Proverb

24.

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

25.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

26.

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

Swedish Proverb

27.

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

28.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Japanese Proverb

30.

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

Chinese Proverb

31.

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

Czech Proverb

32.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

33.

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

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A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

35.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese 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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Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab 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

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One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

40.

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

41.

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

42.

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street 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

44.

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

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Chinese Proverb

48.

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

French Proverb

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