Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

- Dutch Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

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

Japanese Proverb

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

Malayan Proverb

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

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

African Proverb

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

Alger, William R.

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

Russell, John

10.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

11.

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

Jewish Proverb

12.

Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

13.

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

Spanish Proverb

14.

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

Joubert, Joseph

15.

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

Latin Proverb

16.

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

17.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

18.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

19.

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

20.

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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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

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

Scottish Proverb

23.

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

Sontag, Susan

25.

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

Chinese Proverb

26.

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

27.

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Jewish Proverb

29.

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

Huxley, Aldous

30.

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

31.

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

Dutch Proverb

32.

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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If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

34.

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

35.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Irish Proverb

37.

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

38.

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

French Proverb

39.

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

40.

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

Swedish Proverb

41.

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

Belgian Proverb

42.

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

43.

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

Latin Proverb

44.

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

Malayan Proverb

45.

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

46.

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

Scandinavian Proverb

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Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

48.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

49.

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

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

Bulgarian Proverb