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

16.

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

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Scottish Proverb

23.

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

Keats, John

24.

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

Malayan Proverb

25.

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

Dutch Proverb

26.

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

Irish Proverb

27.

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

Malayan Proverb

28.

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

German Proverb

29.

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

30.

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

Sontag, Susan

31.

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

32.

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

33.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

34.

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

Spanish Proverb

35.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

36.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

37.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

38.

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

French Proverb

39.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

40.

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

41.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

42.

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

Huxley, Aldous

43.

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

44.

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

African Proverb

45.

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

46.

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

47.

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

48.

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

Japanese Proverb

49.

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.