Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

Worries go down better with soup than without.

- Jewish Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese 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

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

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

Malayan Proverb

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

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

Belgian Proverb

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

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

Latin Proverb

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

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Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

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

Joubert, Joseph

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It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

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Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

15.

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

Czech Proverb

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Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

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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 proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.

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

Scandinavian Proverb

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

Scottish Proverb

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A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

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When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

25.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

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The reverse side also has a reverse side.

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

Russell, John

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

Spanish Proverb

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The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

Bacon, Francis

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

34.

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

Spanish Proverb

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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.

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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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

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

Swedish Proverb

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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

42.

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

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

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Alger, William R.

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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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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

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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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Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb