Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Japanese Proverb

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

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

Belgian Proverb

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

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

Sontag, Susan

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

French Proverb

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

Swedish Proverb

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

10.

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

Russell, John

11.

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

Czech Proverb

12.

If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.

Spanish Proverb

13.

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

Latin Proverb

14.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

15.

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

16.

A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.

Keats, John

17.

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

Huxley, Aldous

18.

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

19.

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

20.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

21.

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

Chinese Proverb

22.

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

23.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

24.

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

Bacon, Francis

25.

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

Jewish Proverb

26.

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

27.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

28.

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

Scottish Proverb

29.

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

30.

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

Chinese Proverb

31.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

32.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

33.

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

34.

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

35.

He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

36.

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

Malayan Proverb

37.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

38.

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

39.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

40.

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

Jewish Proverb

41.

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

42.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

43.

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

Jewish Proverb

44.

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

German Proverb

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.

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

47.

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.

48.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

49.

Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

50.

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

Dutch Proverb