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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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Best Quotes about Proverbs

1.
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
Arab Proverb

2.
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

3.
They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.
Joubert, Joseph

4.
Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.
Jewish Proverb

5.
If you bow at all, bow low.
Chinese Proverb

6.
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
Carlyle, Thomas

7.
Don't fall before you're pushed.
English Proverb

8.
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
Chinese Proverb

9.
First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.
Greek Proverb

10.
Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you.
Belgian Proverb

11.
Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.
Kurdish Proverb

12.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
African Proverb

13.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Jewish Proverb

14.
The big thieves hang the little ones.
Czech Proverb

15.
He who would leap high must take a long run.
Danish Proverb

16.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Italian Proverb

17.
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

18.
If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
Oriental Proverb

19.
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

20.
Never give a child a sword.
Latin Proverb

21.
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

22.
Praise youth and it will prosper.
Irish Proverb

23.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Bulgarian Proverb

24.
Do not employ handsome servants.
Chinese Proverb

25.
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
Bacon, Francis

26.
Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
Sontag, Susan

27.
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
Dutch Proverb

28.
The best armor is to keep out of range.
Italian Proverb

29.
Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.
Spanish Proverb

30.
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Japanese Proverb

31.
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
Keats, John

32.
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
Japanese Proverb

33.
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
Fuller, R. Buckminster

34.
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
Spanish Proverb

35.
Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.
Chinese Proverb

36.
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Chinese Proverb

37.
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

38.
Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
Swedish Proverb

39.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Chinese Proverb

40.
Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks; bleat in a flock of goats.
Malayan Proverb

41.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Chinese Proverb

42.
A proverb is the child of experience.
Proverb, English

43.
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Irish Proverb

44.
A smiling face is half the meal.
Latvian Proverb

45.
Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.
Wall Street Proverb

46.
One kind word can warm three winter months.
Japanese proverb

47.
Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.
Scottish Proverb

48.
Make your bargain before beginning to plow.
Arab Proverb

49.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
Cervantes, Miguel De

50.
Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.
Swedish Proverb


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