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They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.
- Joubert, Joseph
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Best Quotes about Proverbs

1.
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
Arab Proverb

2.
He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
Jewish Proverb

3.
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
Latin Proverb

4.
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

5.
A proverb is the child of experience.
Proverb, English

6.
Complain to one who can help you.
Yugoslav Proverb

7.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Jewish Proverb

8.
The best armor is to keep out of range.
Italian Proverb

9.
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
Keats, John

10.
One kind word can warm three winter months.
Japanese proverb

11.
When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.
Albanian Proverb

12.
Praise youth and it will prosper.
Irish Proverb

13.
It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.
Latin Proverb

14.
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Irish Proverb

15.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Scandinavian Proverb

16.
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Chinese Proverb

17.
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Huxley, Aldous

18.
Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.
Malayan Proverb

19.
Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors.
Jewish Proverb

20.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Bulgarian Proverb

21.
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
Chinese Proverb

22.
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
Carlyle, Thomas

23.
Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.
Jewish Proverb

24.
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
Spanish Proverb

25.
The palest ink is better than the best memory.
Chinese Proverb

26.
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
Japanese Proverb

27.
They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.
Joubert, Joseph

28.
Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.
Chinese Proverb

29.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Chinese Proverb

30.
Who begins too much accomplishes little.
German Proverb

31.
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

32.
What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.
Jewish Proverb

33.
First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.
Greek Proverb

34.
Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.
Spanish Proverb

35.
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
German Proverb

36.
Hold a true friend with both hands.
Nigerian Proverb

37.
If you believe everything you read, better not read.
Japanese Proverb

38.
When you drink the water, remember the spring.
Chinese Proverb

39.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Italian Proverb

40.
Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
Swedish Proverb

41.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Japanese Proverb

42.
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

43.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Chinese Proverb

44.
Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.
Wall Street Proverb

45.
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
Russell, John

46.
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
Alger, William R.

47.
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

48.
Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.
Scottish Proverb

49.
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
Dutch Proverb

50.
A smiling face is half the meal.
Latvian Proverb


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