Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

- Japanese Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

1.

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

2.

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

Jewish Proverb

3.

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

4.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

5.

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

Alger, William R.

6.

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

Bulgarian Proverb

7.

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

Oriental Proverb

8.

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

Belgian Proverb

9.

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

10.

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

11.

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

Irish Proverb

12.

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

African Proverb

13.

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

Latin Proverb

14.

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

Chinese Proverb

15.

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

Russell, John

16.

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

Scandinavian Proverb

17.

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

18.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

19.

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

20.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

21.

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

French Proverb

22.

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

23.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

24.

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

25.

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

Scottish Proverb

26.

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

27.

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

Keats, John

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Jewish Proverb

31.

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

Japanese Proverb

32.

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

33.

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

34.

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

35.

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

36.

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

Joubert, Joseph

37.

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