Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.

- Jewish Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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

French Proverb

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab 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

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

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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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

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Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

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One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

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

Huxley, Aldous

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The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

17.

If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.

Spanish Proverb

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Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

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The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

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

Oriental Proverb

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He who would leap high must take a long run.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Spanish Proverb

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If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

28.

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

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

German Proverb

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

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

Latin Proverb

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Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

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

Keats, John

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

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

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

Belgian Proverb

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

Russell, John

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First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

44.

What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.

Jewish Proverb

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

Swedish 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

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Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

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

Malayan Proverb

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

Japanese Proverb

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