Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Proverbs

If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.

Spanish Proverb

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

Dutch Proverb

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

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

Bulgarian Proverb

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

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

Sontag, Susan

Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

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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

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

Scandinavian Proverb

12.

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

Latin Proverb

13.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

14.

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

15.

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

Russell, John

16.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

17.

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

Belgian Proverb

18.

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

19.

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

Jewish Proverb

20.

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

Spanish Proverb

21.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

22.

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

Chinese Proverb

23.

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

24.

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

Swedish Proverb

25.

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

Latin Proverb

26.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

27.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

28.

He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

29.

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

Spanish Proverb

30.

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

32.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

33.

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

34.

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

Jewish Proverb

35.

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

36.

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

37.

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

Jewish Proverb

38.

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

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

German Proverb

40.

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

French Proverb

41.

Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

42.

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

43.

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

Irish Proverb

44.

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

45.

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

Jewish Proverb

46.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

49.

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

Oriental 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