Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

- Greek Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

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

Keats, John

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

Jewish Proverb

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

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

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Chinese Proverb

12.

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

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

Japanese Proverb

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

African Proverb

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Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

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Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

17.

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

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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

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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

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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

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Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

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

Bacon, Francis

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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

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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

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

French Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Irish Proverb

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

Swedish Proverb

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If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

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

Scottish Proverb

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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

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I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure. Sometimes I think that all our learning is the little learning of the maxim. To laugh at a Roman awe-stricken in a sacred grove is to laugh at something today.

Stevens, Wallace

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A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

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The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

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The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.