Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

Worries go down better with soup than without.

- Jewish Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Keats, John

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

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

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

Irish Proverb

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

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

Czech Proverb

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

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.

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

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One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

11.

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

Chinese Proverb

12.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Chinese Proverb

14.

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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A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

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Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

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The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

18.

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

Scandinavian Proverb

19.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

20.

Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

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

African Proverb

23.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

24.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Japanese Proverb

26.

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

French Proverb

27.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

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

Russell, John

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Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

30.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Malayan Proverb

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

German Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

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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

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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

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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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Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.