Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Best Quotes about Proverbs

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.

Sontag, Susan

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

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Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

11.

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

12.

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

13.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

14.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Chinese Proverb

16.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

17.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Jewish Proverb

19.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

20.

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

Chinese Proverb

21.

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

Oriental Proverb

22.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

23.

Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

24.

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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Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

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Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Jewish Proverb

29.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

30.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese 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 fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

35.

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

African Proverb

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The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

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I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Belgian Proverb

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If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

40.

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

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

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

Latin Proverb

46.

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

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

Irish Proverb

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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Scandinavian Proverb

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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