Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

- Jewish Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

1.

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

Chinese Proverb

2.

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

3.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

4.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

5.

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

Sontag, Susan

6.

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

Czech Proverb

7.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

8.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

9.

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

German Proverb

10.

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

Alger, William R.

11.

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.

Jewish Proverb

12.

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

Scandinavian Proverb

13.

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

14.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

15.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

16.

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

17.

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

Jewish Proverb

18.

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

19.

Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

20.

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

Latin Proverb

21.

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

22.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

23.

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

24.

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

Belgian Proverb

25.

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

Jewish Proverb

26.

A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

27.

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

Swedish Proverb

28.

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

29.

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

French Proverb

30.

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

Scottish Proverb

31.

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

32.

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

33.

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

34.

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

35.

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

Oriental Proverb

36.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

37.

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

Jewish Proverb

38.

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

39.

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

Russell, John

40.

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

41.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

42.

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