Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

- Jewish Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

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

Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

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

Belgian Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Oriental Proverb

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

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Malayan Proverb

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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

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

German Proverb

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Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

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A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

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If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

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The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

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Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

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If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Japanese Proverb

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It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

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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

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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.

Jewish Proverb

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

Irish Proverb

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Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

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

Alger, William R.

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Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

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

Dutch Proverb

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A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

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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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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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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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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

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The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Czech Proverb

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The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

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

Bacon, Francis

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Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

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The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese 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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Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

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A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

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He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish 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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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