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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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Best Quotes about Proverbs

1.
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
Bacon, Francis

2.
When you drink the water, remember the spring.
Chinese Proverb

3.
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
Alger, William R.

4.
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

5.
A full cup must be carried steadily.
English Proverb

6.
Hold a true friend with both hands.
Nigerian Proverb

7.
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

8.
He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
Jewish Proverb

9.
Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.
Kurdish Proverb

10.
The big thieves hang the little ones.
Czech Proverb

11.
Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
Sontag, Susan

12.
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
Slovenian Proverb

13.
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

14.
When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.
Albanian Proverb

15.
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Chinese Proverb

16.
Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.
Jewish Proverb

17.
Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.
Spanish Proverb

18.
They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.
Joubert, Joseph

19.
Make your bargain before beginning to plow.
Arab Proverb

20.
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

21.
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

22.
Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.
Spanish Proverb

23.
Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you.
Belgian Proverb

24.
Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.
Swedish Proverb

25.
Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.
Malayan Proverb

26.
It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.
Latin Proverb

27.
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
Russell, John

28.
The palest ink is better than the best memory.
Chinese Proverb

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

30.
Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.
Jewish Proverb

31.
Who begins too much accomplishes little.
German Proverb

32.
Never give a child a sword.
Latin Proverb

33.
Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
Swedish Proverb

34.
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

35.
Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.
Chinese Proverb

36.
Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks; bleat in a flock of goats.
Malayan Proverb

37.
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
Latin Proverb

38.
A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
Morley, John

39.
If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
Oriental Proverb

40.
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

41.
If you believe everything you read, better not read.
Japanese Proverb

42.
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
Fuller, R. Buckminster

43.
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
Spanish Proverb

44.
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Japanese Proverb

45.
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

46.
Praise youth and it will prosper.
Irish Proverb

47.
One kind word can warm three winter months.
Japanese proverb

48.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Chinese Proverb

49.
A proverb is the child of experience.
Proverb, English

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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