Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

- Keats, John

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Jewish Proverb

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

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

Bulgarian Proverb

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

Malayan 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

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

Keats, John

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

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Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

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A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

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A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

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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

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

Japanese Proverb

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

French Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

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

Belgian Proverb

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The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

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

Latin Proverb

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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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When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

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If you believe everything you read, better not read.

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

Russell, John

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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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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Chinese Proverb

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Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

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Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

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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If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

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

Czech Proverb

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

Swedish Proverb

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Oriental Proverb

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

Dutch Proverb

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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

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Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

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