Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

- Jewish Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

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

Swedish Proverb

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

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

Keats, John

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

Chinese Proverb

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

German Proverb

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

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

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

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

Latin 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 much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Chinese Proverb

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A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

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Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

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Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish 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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Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

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Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

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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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Fall seven times, stand up eight.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab 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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A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

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

Bulgarian 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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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

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Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 bow at all, bow low.

Chinese 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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He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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