Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

Worries go down better with soup than without.

- Jewish Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

1.

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

Swedish Proverb

2.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

3.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

4.

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

5.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

6.

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

Russell, John

7.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

8.

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

9.

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

Chinese Proverb

10.

A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

14.

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

Japanese Proverb

15.

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

Oriental Proverb

16.

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.

17.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

18.

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

19.

Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

20.

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

Joubert, Joseph

21.

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

22.

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

23.

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

Czech Proverb

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Bulgarian Proverb

27.

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

Spanish Proverb

28.

Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.

Spanish Proverb

29.

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

30.

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

Malayan Proverb

31.

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

32.

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

Chinese Proverb

33.

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

34.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

35.

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

36.

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

Keats, John

37.

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

Spanish Proverb

38.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

39.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

40.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

41.

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

42.

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

43.

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

Jewish Proverb

44.

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

Chinese Proverb

45.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

46.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

47.

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

48.

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

Chinese Proverb

49.

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

50.

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

Latin Proverb