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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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Best Quotes about Proverbs

1.
He who would leap high must take a long run.
Danish Proverb

2.
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

3.
Don't fall before you're pushed.
English Proverb

4.
Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you.
Belgian Proverb

5.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
Cervantes, Miguel De

6.
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
Dutch Proverb

7.
If you believe everything you read, better not read.
Japanese Proverb

8.
They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.
Joubert, Joseph

9.
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
Chinese Proverb

10.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Japanese Proverb

11.
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

12.
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
Alger, William R.

13.
Hold a true friend with both hands.
Nigerian Proverb

14.
The best armor is to keep out of range.
Italian Proverb

15.
Who begins too much accomplishes little.
German Proverb

16.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
African Proverb

17.
Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.
Scottish Proverb

18.
Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.
Chinese Proverb

19.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Chinese Proverb

20.
When you drink the water, remember the spring.
Chinese Proverb

21.
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
Slovenian Proverb

22.
Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
Sontag, Susan

23.
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
Latin Proverb

24.
A smiling face is half the meal.
Latvian Proverb

25.
Make your bargain before beginning to plow.
Arab Proverb

26.
Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.
Jewish Proverb

27.
A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
Morley, John

28.
Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.
Chinese Proverb

29.
It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.
Latin Proverb

30.
When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.
Albanian Proverb

31.
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
Bacon, Francis

32.
One kind word can warm three winter months.
Japanese proverb

33.
Don't stay long when the husband is not at home.
Japanese Proverb

34.
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

35.
The big thieves hang the little ones.
Czech Proverb

36.
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
Keats, John

37.
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
Russell, John

38.
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

39.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Chinese Proverb

40.
Complain to one who can help you.
Yugoslav Proverb

41.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Chinese Proverb

42.
Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors.
Jewish Proverb

43.
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

44.
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Japanese Proverb

45.
A full cup must be carried steadily.
English Proverb

46.
The palest ink is better than the best memory.
Chinese Proverb

47.
Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.
Swedish Proverb

48.
Praise youth and it will prosper.
Irish Proverb

49.
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
German Proverb

50.
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Chinese Proverb


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