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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
- German Proverb
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Best Quotes about Proverbs

1.
When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears.
Czech Proverb

2.
A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
Morley, John

3.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
Cervantes, Miguel De

4.
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

5.
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Irish Proverb

6.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Chinese Proverb

7.
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

8.
Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.
Jewish Proverb

9.
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

10.
The best armor is to keep out of range.
Italian Proverb

11.
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
Slovenian Proverb

12.
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
Spanish Proverb

13.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Bulgarian Proverb

14.
What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.
Jewish Proverb

15.
When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.
Albanian Proverb

16.
Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
Sontag, Susan

17.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
African Proverb

18.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Japanese Proverb

19.
Do not employ handsome servants.
Chinese Proverb

20.
Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.
Swedish Proverb

21.
Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you.
Belgian Proverb

22.
They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.
Joubert, Joseph

23.
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
Alger, William R.

24.
Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.
Wall Street Proverb

25.
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
Japanese Proverb

26.
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
Keats, John

27.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Chinese Proverb

28.
Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks; bleat in a flock of goats.
Malayan Proverb

29.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Chinese Proverb

30.
Complain to one who can help you.
Yugoslav Proverb

31.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Scandinavian Proverb

32.
It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.
Latin Proverb

33.
A full cup must be carried steadily.
English Proverb

34.
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
Carlyle, Thomas

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

36.
A proverb is the child of experience.
Proverb, English

37.
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
Chinese Proverb

38.
Who begins too much accomplishes little.
German Proverb

39.
He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
Jewish Proverb

40.
Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.
Jewish Proverb

41.
A smiling face is half the meal.
Latvian Proverb

42.
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Huxley, Aldous

43.
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Chinese Proverb

44.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Spanish Proverb

45.
Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.
Malayan Proverb

46.
When you drink the water, remember the spring.
Chinese Proverb

47.
Don't fall before you're pushed.
English Proverb

48.
If you bow at all, bow low.
Chinese Proverb

49.
Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.
Spanish Proverb

50.
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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