Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

One kind word can warm three winter months.

- Japanese proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

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

Japanese Proverb

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

Latin Proverb

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

Russell, John

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

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.

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

Czech Proverb

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

Alger, William R.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

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

Dutch Proverb

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

Japanese 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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A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

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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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The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese 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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Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.

Swedish Proverb

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

Bulgarian Proverb

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The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

Chinese Proverb

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Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese 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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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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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

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

Malayan Proverb

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

Malayan Proverb

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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

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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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A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

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A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

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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

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First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Oriental Proverb

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Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

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Never give a child a sword.

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

Chinese Proverb

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The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

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What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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

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

French Proverb

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When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

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

Bacon, Francis