Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

One kind word can warm three winter months.

- Japanese proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Jewish Proverb

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

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

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

Alger, William R.

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

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Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

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If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

14.

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

French Proverb

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

Dutch 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

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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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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears.

Czech Proverb

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When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

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

Bulgarian Proverb

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When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

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Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

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Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

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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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One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

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

Spanish 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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Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.

Chinese Proverb

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A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

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Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

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

Scandinavian Proverb

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Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

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

Malayan Proverb

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

Russell, John

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

Latin Proverb

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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

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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

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

Chinese Proverb

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Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.