Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

The big thieves hang the little ones.

- Czech Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.

Russell, John

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

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

Scottish Proverb

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

Chinese 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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Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav 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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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.

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

German Proverb

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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

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It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

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Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

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

Sontag, Susan

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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

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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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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Spanish Proverb

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Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

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If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

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The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

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

Swedish Proverb

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

Latin Proverb

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Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese 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 stay long when the husband is not at home.

Japanese Proverb

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

African Proverb

35.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

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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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Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Japanese Proverb

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He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish 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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The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

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

Spanish Proverb

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When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

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

Huxley, Aldous

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