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

1.

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

2.

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

3.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

4.

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

Bacon, Francis

5.

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

6.

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

Spanish Proverb

7.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

8.

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

Spanish Proverb

9.

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

Jewish Proverb

10.

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

11.

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

12.

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

Scottish Proverb

13.

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

Huxley, Aldous

14.

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.

Jewish Proverb

15.

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

16.

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

German Proverb

17.

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

18.

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

Scandinavian Proverb

19.

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

Chinese Proverb

20.

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

Japanese Proverb

21.

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

22.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

23.

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

Joubert, Joseph

24.

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

Latin Proverb

25.

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

Chinese Proverb

26.

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

27.

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

28.

If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.

Spanish Proverb

29.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

30.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

31.

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

African Proverb

32.

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

33.

Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

34.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

35.

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

Latin Proverb

36.

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

37.

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

38.

Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

39.

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

40.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

41.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.