Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

- Czech Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

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.

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

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

Chinese Proverb

A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

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

Swedish 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

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

Jewish Proverb

10.

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

Chinese Proverb

11.

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

Czech Proverb

12.

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

13.

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

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Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

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

Japanese Proverb

16.

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

French Proverb

18.

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

Bulgarian Proverb

19.

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

Spanish Proverb

20.

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

21.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

22.

He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

23.

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese 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

25.

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

27.

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

Belgian Proverb

28.

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

African Proverb

30.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

32.

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

Chinese Proverb

33.

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

34.

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

35.

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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Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

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First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

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

Joubert, Joseph

40.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

41.

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

Swedish 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

43.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

44.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

45.

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

Spanish Proverb

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

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

Jewish Proverb

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It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb