Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

- Japanese Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Oriental Proverb

Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.

Swedish Proverb

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

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

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

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

He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

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

Russell, John

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

Spanish Proverb

13.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

14.

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

Japanese Proverb

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

Latin Proverb

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Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

17.

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

Chinese Proverb

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The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese 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

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It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

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Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab 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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Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

24.

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

Bacon, Francis

25.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

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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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A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

28.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

29.

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

Malayan Proverb

30.

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

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

Irish Proverb

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Do not employ handsome servants.