Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

- French Proverb

Best Quotes about 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

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

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

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

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

Latin Proverb

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

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

Irish Proverb

10.

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

Joubert, Joseph

11.

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

Jewish Proverb

12.

Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

13.

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

Chinese Proverb

14.

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

15.

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

Jewish Proverb

16.

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

17.

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

Jewish Proverb

18.

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

Sontag, Susan

19.

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

20.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

21.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

22.

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

African Proverb

23.

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

Swedish Proverb

24.

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

Dutch Proverb

25.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

26.

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

Chinese Proverb

27.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

28.

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

29.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

30.

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

Russell, John

31.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

32.

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

Japanese Proverb

33.

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

34.

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

Chinese Proverb

35.

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

36.

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

Spanish Proverb

37.

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

Latin Proverb

38.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

39.

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

40.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

41.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

42.

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

Bacon, Francis

43.

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

44.

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

French Proverb

45.

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

Bulgarian Proverb

46.

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

47.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

48.

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

49.

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

Keats, John

50.

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.