Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

The best armor is to keep out of range.

- Italian Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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.

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

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

Scottish Proverb

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

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

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

Japanese Proverb

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Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

11.

He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

12.

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

13.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

14.

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

15.

Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

16.

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

Belgian Proverb

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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

18.

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

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

Alger, William R.

20.

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Oriental Proverb

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

Malayan Proverb

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

24.

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

25.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Bacon, Francis

28.

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

Dutch Proverb

29.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

30.

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

32.

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

Bulgarian Proverb

33.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

34.

Don't fall before you're pushed.

English 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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Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

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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

38.

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

39.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

40.

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

Chinese Proverb

41.

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

42.

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

43.

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

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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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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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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

47.

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

Spanish Proverb

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If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

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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