Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

- Czech Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Dutch Proverb

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

Scandinavian Proverb

Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.

Malayan Proverb

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

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

11.

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.

12.

Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

13.

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

Latin Proverb

14.

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

15.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

16.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

17.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

18.

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

Bulgarian Proverb

19.

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

Huxley, Aldous

20.

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

Swedish Proverb

21.

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

Chinese Proverb

22.

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

23.

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

Belgian Proverb

24.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Russell, John

28.

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

Swedish Proverb

29.

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

German Proverb

30.

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

Malayan Proverb

31.

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

Czech Proverb

32.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

33.

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

Jewish Proverb

34.

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

Scottish Proverb

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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

36.

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

37.

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

38.

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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Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

40.

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

Chinese Proverb

41.

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

Jewish Proverb

42.

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

Chinese Proverb

43.

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

44.

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

Sontag, Susan

45.

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

46.

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

Oriental Proverb

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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

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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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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.