Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

- Italian Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

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

Oriental Proverb

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech 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

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

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

Irish Proverb

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Japanese Proverb

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

Malayan Proverb

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When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Malayan Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

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Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

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The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

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The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

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Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

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

Bulgarian Proverb

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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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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

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If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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

Jewish 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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Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.

Alger, William R.

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

Chinese Proverb

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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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab 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 smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

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

Swedish Proverb

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The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

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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

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

Belgian 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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Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

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A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

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

Japanese Proverb

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He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

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

French 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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Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb