Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

- German Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

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

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Scandinavian Proverb

Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

10.

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

11.

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

Joubert, Joseph

12.

Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

13.

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

Jewish Proverb

14.

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

15.

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

Sontag, Susan

16.

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

17.

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

Malayan Proverb

18.

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

Belgian Proverb

19.

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

20.

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

21.

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

Spanish Proverb

22.

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

Irish Proverb

23.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

24.

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

25.

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

Japanese Proverb

26.

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

French Proverb

27.

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

Jewish Proverb

28.

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

Bacon, Francis

29.

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

Chinese Proverb

30.

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.

31.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

32.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

33.

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

Russell, John

34.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

35.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

36.

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

37.

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

Latin Proverb

38.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

39.

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

40.

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

41.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

42.

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

German Proverb

43.

A proverb is the child of experience.