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

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

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

Joubert, Joseph

Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

German Proverb

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

10.

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

11.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

12.

Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

13.

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

Sontag, Susan

14.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

15.

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

Latin Proverb

16.

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

Jewish Proverb

17.

He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

18.

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

Jewish Proverb

19.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

20.

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

21.

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

Swedish Proverb

22.

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

23.

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

Chinese Proverb

24.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

25.

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

Russell, John

26.

Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.

Scottish Proverb

27.

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

Malayan Proverb

28.

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

29.

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

30.

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.

31.

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

32.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

33.

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

African Proverb

34.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

35.

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

Chinese Proverb

36.

A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

37.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

38.

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

Czech Proverb

39.

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

40.

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

41.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

42.

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

Japanese Proverb

43.

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

Chinese Proverb

44.

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

Scandinavian Proverb

45.

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

46.

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

47.

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

48.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

49.

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

French Proverb

50.

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